by Peter A. Arthur-Smith, Leadership Solutions, Inc.® “Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision.” Andrew Carnegie More often than not in our current organization world,…
by Peter A. Arthur-Smith, Leadership Solutions, Inc.® “Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work”…
by Peter A. Arthur-Smith, Leadership Solutions, Inc.® “During the industrial-age we made our production workers highly efficient but the productivity levels of our ‘knowledge-workers’ is abysmal.” Peter F. Drucker …
by Peter A. Arthur-Smith, Leadership Solutions, Inc.® " History doesn't so much repeat itself but rhyme." Mark Twain “History is best used to frame possibilities, not to identify precise analogies…
by Peter A. Arthur-Smith, Leadership Solutions, Inc.® “Flow: The mental state of operation in which a person performing an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus,…
by Peter A. Arthur-Smith, Leadership Solutions, Inc.® “Incentives for teams have stronger effects with small teams, when the team faces complex tasks, when rewards are equitable (vs. equal), and when…
by Peter A. Arthur-Smith, Leadership Solutions, Inc.® “Second-guessing our people is a management habit that’s likely costing our economy $billions per year.” A recent event brought into focus the tremendous…
by Peter A. Arthur-Smith, Leadership Solutions, Inc.® “Blue Ocean Strategy challenges companies to break out of bloody competition – Red Ocean - by creating uncontested market space that makes competitors…
by Peter A. Arthur-Smith, Leadership Solutions, Inc.® “Conventional managers: Light fires under people….whereas…Enlightened leaders: Light fires within people.” These are just some of the…
by Peter A. Arthur-Smith, Leadership Solutions, Inc.® “Good leaders never stop learning.” Gerard Seijts, Ivey Business Journal, July/August 2013. Our conventional management (CM) culture is fraught by…
