Training – The Musings of the Big Red Car

Team Building

Big Red Car — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 18:22:22 +0000

We often take it for granted in startups that a team will “emerge” when we get the right chemical combination, as if the primordial slime will simply make the right cocktail that will solve the problem, remove the pain point, build the better mousetrap. A better approach would be — might be — to explore […]

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Team Performance — The Multiplier Effect

Big Red Car — Sat, 14 Dec 2019 20:18:34 +0000

The board of directors and the investors in a company rarely get an opportunity to see a team function as a system, as a whole. They may become familiar with certain subsets of the team when they are in contact with the leadership and the management, but they rarely see the entire team working together […]

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Training — Baron von Steuben Style for CEOs

Big Red Car — Wed, 26 Jul 2017 18:16:53 +0000

Training again, Big Red Car? Really? OK, dear reader, we will have one last crack at training for the CEO. Promise. Today, we discuss Baron von Steuben. You know the Baron, right? Drillmaster of Valley Forge, no? Get this book by Paul Lockhart. Great read. Been around for some time and it is a great […]

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Team Building — Individual Skills

Big Red Car — Tue, 17 Feb 2015 13:41:45 +0000

Big Red Car here on a cold Austin day. Brrrrrrr! It is in the low 30’s but it will be in the 70’s on Thursday. Let’s just get to Thursday, you hot house thin blooded Texans! So The Boss gets talking about the art of building teams. Teams are not just groups of folks who […]

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