The 4 Phases of Collaboration

Edison was genius, but not a lone genius. Sarah Caldicott documented that team work in the book Midnight Lunch: The 4 Phases of Team Collaboration Success from Thomas Edison’s Lab. I asked her about those 4 phases in a past podcast. Related Podcast and Transcription: Teamwork: The Edison Way An excerpt from the podcast: Joseph: Read More …

Can You Pass on Culture? Can You Pass on The Disney Way?

In a past podcast, I asked Doug Lipp  a world-renowned speaker and acclaimed expert on Disney and explained in his book Disney U: How Disney University Develops the World’s Most Engaged, Loyal, and Customer-Centric Employees; In your work, you try to pass on the Disney way to others? How tough is that? Doug:    It Read More …

Having an Effective Conversation

An innovation and strategy consultant, Chris Ertel has years of experience advising senior executives of Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and large nonprofit. Chris talks about his new book Moments of Impact: How to Design Strategic Conversations That Accelerate Change in this Business901 Podcast. I thought this excerpt from the podcast was a great “How Read More …

New to Visual Storytelling?

Next week’s podcast guest is Ekaterina Walter, a passionate marketer, who writes and speaks on topics of leadership, business innovation, and digital revolution. She is the author of Think Like Zuck and a new book, The Power of Visual Storytelling: How to Use Visuals, Videos, and Social Media to Market Your Brand. Below is an Read More …

Simplify or Elaborate the Message in Virtual Teams

A renowned expert in the fields of remote collaboration, global teams, and managing wide-scale organizational change, Nancy Settle-Murphy is a popular author of articles, white papers, ezines and booklets. I asked Nancy about one of my struggles: Joe:  One of the struggles I always have is that when I communicate, I probably simplify things and Read More …

You Need More Than a Set of Goals

Great Business Teams author Howard Guttman was a guest in a past Business901 podcast and though the podcast was supposed to be about his latest book Coach Yourself to Win. In the midst of it all we had a unique discussion about virtual teams when I asked: Joe:  Many teams are not necessarily all in Read More …