Team building is a critical success skill for business owners and leaders. No matter how good they are, there is only so much of an impact one person can have on an organization, especially as it grows. I am confident that a group of focused, committed, and technically competent individuals will regularly outperform any gifted individual contributor. However, harnessing and effectively leveraging the skills of a group of individual contributors is hard work. If it were easy everyone could do it and organizations would function much better.
The Price of Growth: When Your Business Outgrows Your People “What got you here won’t necessarily get you there.” — Marshall Goldsmith One of the saddest realities of building a…
Never Let an Employee Hold Your Company Hostage One of the most common conversations I have with business owners goes something like this: “Ed, if she leaves, we’re in trouble.”…
Book introduction Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win is a leadership book that centers on…
Introduction: Why communication matters on the shop floor (and in the boardroom) Most teams don’t stall out because…
By focusing on understanding and developing employees, setting clear expectations, and recognizing achievements, managers can create a motivated…
These insights remind us that great teams are not just about individual talent but about collective effort, shared…
Building a successful organization goes beyond having talented individuals or innovative products. It’s about creating a culture where…
In your high-performance journey, you'll need to be courageous too. The road to high performance is daunting. By…
Most teams drown in priorities, meetings, and metrics that don’t change outcomes. 4DX shows you how to narrow…
Getting Along If you lead people, you lead through friction—clashing styles, mixed agendas, and the pressure to hit…
The leadership journey requires you to cogitate constantly on the role you and others should be playing. As…
Getting to Yes, And How improv builds better teams, faster decisions, and real momentum.Inspired by Bob Kulhan’s book…
Most team problems aren’t technical—they’re people problems: unclear goals, fuzzy roles, slow decisions, and accountability that slips. This…
Don Yaeger’s Great Teams looks at high-performing teams across sports, business, and organizations—and pulls out something useful: Great…
The Founding Fathers were not aligned by default. Different backgrounds. Different interests. Different visions for the country. And…
Patrick Lencioni makes a simple but uncomfortable claim: meetings aren’t boring by accident—they’re boring by design. And worse,…
Patrick Lencioni doesn’t hide behind theory. He shows you what actually breaks teams—and more importantly, what leaders allow…
The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive This is a short book that doesn’t try to impress you…
“WE-thinking” changes the game. It asks leaders to build conditions where people feel safe enough to contribute, challenge,…
Daniel Coyle’s core idea is simple: great cultures are not accidents. They are built through small, consistent behaviors…
Chapter 1: The ONE Thing “What’s the ONE Thing you can do this week such that by doing…
Skill 1: Build Safety Chapter 1 “Safety is not mere emotional weather but rather the foundation on which…
Bring the decision you've been circling. The problem you haven't said out loud. The one you've been carrying alone.
Ed’s frameworks, the occasional hard-won lesson, and what he’s reading. No spam, unsubscribe anytime.
