Building a Better Team
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BusinessWeek Online - Stephen Joyce is the author of the Amazon (NasdaqGS:AMZN - News) best seller Teaching an Anthill to Fetch: Developing Collaborative Intelligence @ Work. An international speaker, Stephen loves to help companies develop the collaborative intelligence of their teams and organization. He and I recently corresponded by e-mail about his new book. Here is an edited transcript.
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HEMPSTEAD, N.Y., Jan. 4 - Some players seem destined to make a statement in big games, and some seem to shy from the moment.
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As the 2006 boys' soccer season gets underway, all coaches are faced with the task of rebuilding and re-tooling teams that very often look different from the year before. Success can be cyclical, and year-by-year teams find themselves faced with the task of tinkering with lineups, bringing along younger players, and finding a style of play that will best suit ...
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A team fighting for its life -- in more ways than one -- plays on.
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It takes many parts strategy, commitment, compromise and luck. Here are some tips.
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If you want to be a better investor, do what the best goaltenders in ice hockey do: improve your decision-making skills.
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Jim Mora gathered his team for its first meeting in late March and built a fire. A lot of new coaches do that and six months later there are just embers.
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Isiah Thomas&#39; blueprint for building a team is to start with the backcourt and work his way forward. As vice president of the Toronto Raptors, Thomas&#39; first significant move was to draft a guard, Damon Stoudamire.
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The company is doing a little better in some ways -- but better enough to save the board?
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In sports, as in investing, the pressure is on. We suggest a coping strategy.
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There's a certain energy about Johnny Damon. It can inspire a team, fill a room with laughter, and create an atmosphere in which you want to come to work every day.
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There is an art to picking a team during qualifying, when a coach must take into account fitness, injuries, fatigue, suspensions and commitments to professional clubs.
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Man, is it quiet. With just over two weeks to go before the NHL trade deadline, general managers are moving little more than office furniture (tossing desk chairs in frustration?), further underscoring that the new collective bargaining agreement has turned the building of roster chemistry into strictly a midsummer exercise around free agency.
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Before the season, the most important thing on Bruins coach Claude Julien's to-do list was to improve his team's goals-against average.
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Practical tools for assessing who is worth doing business with--and who isn't.