Make Profitable Decisions
In the first four articles of this series of seven, I put forward a proposition that there are two types of business teams. Teams with spirit and teams without spirit. Business teams with spirit are winners. Teams without spirit are losers. Athletics provide a helpful illustration of the way in which I use [...]
Ego Taking Control
So there I am in a meeting room with George and five members of his team. George had invited me to sit in on a meeting and evaluate what was happening. He said that the team was stuck; that they were completely unable to pull in the same direction. As their [...]
The Power of a Shared Vision
There are two types of teams. Teams with spirit and teams without spirit. Teams with spirit are winners. Teams without spirit are losers. That’s just the way it is. Take a look at your favorite sports teams. Take a look at the teams in your organization that outperform others. And [...]
The business environment is abound with games that people play– boardroom games, political games, one-upmanship games, money games , entitlement games, greed games– to name only a few.
A ‘game’ is the kind of non-authentic interaction that occurs in a relationship when someone has a personal agenda and is attempting to influence an outcome to their [...]
By Sandy Gluckman PhD
Author of ‘Who’s in the Driver’s Seat; Using Spirit to Lead Successfully’
The concept of spirited economics refers to the ability of organizations to achieve extraordinary profits and obtain the projected economic outcomes by putting the spirit of the people to work.
One of the core issues of spirited economics is asking and [...]