Team

"A principle isn’t a principle unless it costs you something".—Bob Goldstein, former P&G Vice President of Advertising Today is the first day of the work week and as usual we ended the day with our company meeting.  There's only a small number of us, so we can be efficient with the 45 minutes we've allotted. As usual, each team member spent a few minutes touching on the more complex, urgent, or higher-profile tasks facing them this week. Sometimes they relate those tasks to specific...

As an employee progressing through Newbie Acclimation 101, one of the topics I've given a lot of thought to lately is concept of Team. Being the newcomer sometimes allows me to see some "grandfathered" situations and dynamics in a way that more seasoned employees don't. I think this is the temporary "keen insight" baton that gets passed from one successive new hire to the next. I believe that Team implies a relationship. Team assumes two or more parties share interest in a common topic, understand...

I’ve remarked many times before that there isn’t enough money in the world for someone to pay me to go back to high school. Not that I’m embracing the grey hairs or the mom pants, pluck you very much. But high school was such a turbulent time. Who needs the headaches, the tears, the heartaches? Truthfully, my fondest memories of high school include a trio of girls I still hold dear today (time has a way of minimizing the few times we fought), the bar that pretended to believe I was 18-yr...