Leadership, teamwork, democratic workplace
Recently reading an old-timey Ellery Queen mystery, I stumbled across yet another nimble fat man allusion: “As the District Attorney closed the door the occupant of the room wheeled about with astonishing agility for a man of his weight.” This cliché appears in The Roman Hat Mystery (1929). The “astonishing agility” reminded me of a…
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…
“A small elephant is not a rabbit.”
(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…