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Effective Teams: What’s the Secret?*

Posted on July 5, 2025November 6, 2025 by John Lubans

It’s an eternal question , why some teams do well and others fail. Is it luck or circumstance, personality, leadership, or urgency, nature or nurture? All of these, none of these? Some of my work teams would take off and soar far above others. I try to explain this phenomenon in my classes by exploring…

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Fable of the Hedgehog and the Birds*

Posted on June 30, 2025November 6, 2025 by John Lubans

“A small elephant is not a rabbit.”

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Krylov’s fable: The Oracle

Posted on June 25, 2025November 6, 2025 by John Lubans

(This is an experiment using Word to put up a post on my new platform. The text below is one of Krylov’s fables; there are many more at my former blog, along with information on who he was here So far, WordPress is a maddening experience. Like the IRS, “simple” is a word they do…

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