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Verizon Doubles Down On Team Dynamics And Prospers During Pandemic

Verizon Doubles Down On Team Dynamics And Prospers During Pandemic

“It is not what you do. It is what you make happen.” Ronan Dunne, CEO of Verizon Consumer Group, shared this leadership principle with me on a Zoom chat recently. It’s one useful tenet all leaders today should adopt, and it has undoubtedly taken on much greater significance as we move forward and out of...

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6 Ways to Come Back From the Pandemic With a Stronger Team

6 Ways to Come Back From the Pandemic With a Stronger Team

The future of work arrived out of nowhere, on the back of a once-in-a-centurypandemic. Team dynamics got challenged as members dealt with illness, trauma,and crisis. We’ve all been forced to rapidly and radically adapt to new working norms. The Ferrazzi Greenlight Research Institute has spent more than 15 years studying high-performing teams, but I’ve never...

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Getting Virtual Teams Right

Getting Virtual Teams Right

The appeal of forming virtual teams is clear. Employees can manage their work and personal lives more flexibly, and they have the opportunity to interact with colleagues around the world. Companies can use the best and lowest-cost global talent and significantly reduce their real estate costs. But virtual teams are hard to get right. In...

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Evaluating the Employees You Can’t See

Evaluating the Employees You Can’t See

We all tend to trust what we can see. If someone is always in the office early and leaves late, you’d probably assume he is a dedicated, hard-working employee. But he might actually be the least productive of his co-workers. And that’s why numerous experts have advised that companies should avoid management by observation, and...

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Three Symptoms of a Vulnerable Team

Three Symptoms of a Vulnerable Team

A number of years ago, I worked on an executive team in which everyone was located in the same building but people seemed frustratingly far apart. Yet at my first job out of business school, I worked on a number of teams in which we were scattered across the globe but I felt closely connected...

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Candor, Criticism, Teamwork

Candor, Criticism, Teamwork

We’ve all been there: trapped in pointless meetings where participants are afraid to speak honestly. We twiddle our thumbs through diplomatic PowerPoint presentations, waiting for the meeting to end so that the real conversations—which usually happen in private—can begin. The desire to avoid conflict is understandable, but it’s one of the most debilitating factors in...

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