1: As leaders, one of our most important roles is to unlock the full potential of each person on our teams.

One of the best ways to release this potential is to organize “Quality Circles,” Brian Tracy writes in his terrific book Sales Management.

This practice involves gathering our team for a specific one-hour time block each week to focus on a single question to drive “continuous and never-ending … continue reading

1: The year was 1987.  Michael Jordan was establishing himself as one of the best players in the National Basketball Association, if not the best.  

And yet, during his first three seasons, his team, the Chicago Bulls, had been swept in the first round of the playoffs, write Dan Sullivan and Benjamin Hardy in Who Not How: The Formula to Achieve Bigger Goals Through Accelerating Teamwork.

“It was clear … continue reading