Author: jeff@intellectualstrategies.com

[This post was originally published September 6, 2017, on LinkedIn by Jeff Holman.]

Have you ever tried to discuss your company’s vision, purpose, and mission? How these differ from one another usually depends on whoever is speaking. Getting a handful of executives, let alone an entire company, to come to consensus and stand behind what these should mean is nearly futile. No, it is futile, unless your team operates within a simple framework.

[This post was originally published August 29, 2017, on LinkedIn by Jeff Holman.]

A friend shared an article with me about team effectiveness. It resonated with me and prompted me through a sequence of interesting articles and perspectives. So I thought sharing it might be useful to many of my friends, because it provides a framework to think and talk about effective teamwork.

At the bottom of this article are a few links to the underlying article about Google’s two-year Project Aristotle and related resources that formed the basis for these observations. I believe it’s worth the time to review these links.

[This post was originally published August 25, 2017, on LinkedIn by Jeff Holman.]

This world is but a canvas to our imagination. 

Henry David Thoreau

In a recent interview with HBR Ideacast from Harvard Business Review, Steve Blank — a founding father of lean startup methodology — enumerated the three primary contributions to lean:

• Alexander Osterwalder’s business model canvas
• Steve Blank’s customer development process (also see here)
• Eric Reis’ minimum viable product (MVP) development approach