Posted on March 9th, 2009 by Rebecca Bruns
I’ve been hearing about Southwest Airlines and their venerated employee culture since I began in business school over three decades ago. Then we joked about the “love” theme. Considering that SWA closed 2008 with the second-best on-time performance of the nation’s commercial air carriers and that SWA carries more domestic passengers than any other U.S. [...]
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Filed under: Passed On, Recommended
Posted on February 24th, 2009 by Rebecca Bruns
Richard Florida, author of The Rise of the Creative Class and the director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, has given us some new terminology in a recent article in The Atlantic and in an interview last Monday on NPR’s “OnPoint” with Tom Ashboork.
A “talent-rich ecosystem” [...]
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Filed under: Book, Discussion, From Rebecca, Podcast, Recommended
Posted on February 14th, 2009 by Administrator
Years ago one of the consultants I most admire, Steve Buchholz, author of Creating the High Performance Team, introduced the concept of “patient urgency” as an attitude that would benefit high performing teams. He taught that teams must convey a sense of urgency and yet be patient as well so as not to prematurely derail [...]
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Posted on February 14th, 2009 by Administrator
David Allen has an insightful podcast titled: “Getting Things Done.” This is a great introduction to David Allen himself, and to his book, Making It All Work. It’s about an hour long, but well worth the listen. Very motivating!
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