Having a solid strategy can mean the difference between winning and losing, failing and succeeding. Knowing the stakes, how do you create a good strategy? What does strategy even mean anyway? At the company level, Harvard Business Professor Michael Porter defines strategy as a unique and valuable position involving a…

Teams go through different phases and stages. Dr. Bruce Tuckman published his 4-stage model in 1965 — Forming, Storming, Norming, and Performing and added a fifth stage, Adjourning in the 1970s. The theory explains the predictable and evolving formative periods most teams experience. …

In the last blog, we talked about the definition of a team. This blog will focus on the types of teams depending on the degree of interconnectedness — ranging from independent on one side to dependent on the other, and all the shades in between. Identifying the kind of team…

The word team is frequently used to describe any group of people loosely working together. There are leadership teams, management teams, work teams, cross-functional teams, and more. The term is often evoked even when there are divergent agendas and little reliance on each other. Depending on the kind of team…

The previous blogs in this series have covered various topics relating to how habits work and how we can make them work better. This blog will offer several tips to further optimize your habit changes. 1. Have Systems, not Goals. Scott Adams, in his book “How to Fail at Almost…

The best way for your habit change to take root is to be consistent with your behaviors. Even when you cannot see the benefits, big dividends will be eventually paid when you put a system in place to follow. When you make the slightest adjustments to your daily routine, it…

When you are thinking about starting a new habit, it seems like resistance has other ideas. Partly because some people devise an elaborate plan and create grandiose expectations. No wonder it is hard to follow habits when the bar is already fixed so impossibly high before you have even begun…

Your surroundings may be impacting your habits more than you think and more than you want, so when you start controlling your setting, you can begin to have progress on the long-awaited changes in your life. Executive Coach Marshall Goldsmith said, “Most of us go through life unaware of how…

The key to setting habits is to know yourself so you can customize your plan for change. …