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The best meeting icebreaker to break the ice

Meeting icebreakers can be as painful as a bucket of ice down your shorts.  The icebreaker’s intent?  Loosen things up, meet people, set the stage for effective work. The challenge, if you are going to use an icebreaker, is to understand the difference between hokey and intentional. Know your audience is a constant refrain.  But sometimes, [...]

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Competing values drives your organization out of business

Cultures are characterized by how things are done around here.  Culture is sometimes adopted from the founder, sometimes developed consciously by teams who try to improve performance, and sometimes culture is formed in reaction to a lack of leadership or need for survival. Culture emerges from collective: behavior, values, norms, assumptions, expectations, and process When [...]

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