Sustaining Your Organizing Efforts

It’s Not the How, It’s the Discipline Through his own obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) Justin Klosky created the O.C.D. Experience. I asked Justin;  One of the things you mention is the discipline part of it which is always difficult for all of us to stay at. But we get this burning platform and we make Read More …

Best Stories About Value Are About Users

In discussing Goods Dominant Logic (Gd-Logic) versus Service-Dominant Logic (SD-Logic), I probably oversimplify the message when I use the comparison that GD-Logic focuses on the thought of value derived at the point of transaction and SD-Logic focuses on the thought of value derived at the point of use. I went into this thinking in a Read More …

Sales Stories: Are You Creating the Wrong Heroes?

An outline of most sales stories that you will see goes something like this. First, you must grab their attention or the hook. Second, you tell them a relevant story that addresses their needs starting with the current state and the deficiencies or pain points, proceeding to describe the future state and how it will 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 …

Does Your Team Want to Be Extraordinary

Four patterns of extraordinary teams: Energized Connected Hopeful Changed I asked author Geoff Bellman that question in a past podcast. I also added, does a group have to have all of them to be extraordinary? Related Podcast and Transcription: Making Teams Extraordinary Geoff Bellman:  No, let me say a couple of things about them first. Read More …