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 By Thomas Charles Belanger, on March 8th, 2012 “You Can Get It If You Really Want.” Jimmy Cliff Abraham Lincoln is perhaps the best model of perseverance ever known. He started two businesses that failed. His fiancée died; during the next year he suffered a nervous breakdown. He ran unsuccessfully for the state legislature; he was defeated in two runs for […] By Thomas Charles Belanger, on March 1st, 2012 A mentor is a trusted counselor or guide, tutor, or coach. This type of relationship has been effective when used to aid the protégé in acquiring new skills and settling into a new environment. Mentoring relationships have existed since Aristotle mentored Alexander the Great, and probably earlier. Throughout history, apprentices were, and are, guided by […] By Thomas Charles Belanger, on February 23rd, 2012 Read Part I of this post, How to Get the Best Ideas from Your Team and Your Expanded Team. Can you expect pattern-busting breakthroughs if your team is only three or four people? Probably not. You are very unlikely to have significant diversity with such a small number of people Brainstorming with a larger group, […] By Thomas Charles Belanger, on February 22nd, 2012 People with different experiences and backgrounds see things differently. These include differences in age, gender, race, occupation, and anything else that makes us different from one another. Ben Franklin’s junto was made up of twelve individuals, and included three from the field of printing, a scrivener who loved poetry and natural history, a glazier who […] By Thomas Charles Belanger, on January 13th, 2011 “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.” Michael Jordan For most of us, our first “team” experience occurred before we were ten years old. It may have been a school soccer team, little league baseball team or neighborhood “pick-up” game. We learned to play the game, and to cooperate with others. “Do […] |
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