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The Team of Teams Book by Stanley McChrystal

What is the Team of Teams book about? What was the role of General Stanley McChrystal in helping the U.S. task force counteract Al Qaeda and capture Zarqawi? Team of Teams is a book that tells the true story of how General Stanley McChrystal transformed the U.S. task force in the middle of the war with Al Qaeda. He did this by cutting down the length of its chain of command to speed up decision-making and increase team agility. Keep reading for more about Team of Teams book by General Stanley McChrystal.

Death by Meeting: The Problematic Employee Meeting

How bad were Casey’s employee meetings in Death by Meeting? How did Will try to salvage Casey’s meeting format? Was it good enough to impress J.T.? In Death by Meeting, Yip Software’s CEO Casey is notoriously bad at running employee meetings. His new assistant Will sits in to assess the situation and is shocked by what he sees. If they don’t improve their meetings, Casey could lose his job. Keep reading to find out why Casey’s employee meetings are so bad and what Will had to say about them.

How to Be a CEO During the Bad Times: The Struggle

When your company isn’t doing well, how can you be a good CEO? How do you get through the hard times without giving up? What is The Struggle? In his book The Hard Thing About Hard Things, Ben Horowitz talks about the hard parts of starting a business and being a CEO. He discuses The Struggle that almost every CEO will go through and gives advice on how to get through it. Keep reading for advice on how to be a good CEO and get through The Struggle.

The Death by Meeting Book Backstory: Casey and Yip

In Patrick Lencioni’s book, Death by Meeting, how did Yip CEO Casey go from a PGA golfer to making videogames? What factors halted Yip’s potential growth? Patrick Lencioni’s book Death by Meeting is a business parable about a CEO named Casey who doesn’t know how to lead a productive team meeting. Casey gave up his golf career after a case of the yips and decided to turn his passion for golf into a videogame. Continue reading to learn more about how Casey started Yip Software in the Death by Meeting book.

How to Stop Wasting Time and Start Getting Stuff Done

Do you often find yourself spending time on unproductive activities that add neither value nor enjoyment? How do you stop wasting time and start getting things done? Studies show that most people waste more valuable work time in a day than they realize. This time is wasted dealing with the various distractions thrown their way while they’re trying to work. To stop wasting time, you must learn to say “no” to distractions and “yes” to active focus. Keep reading for tips on how to stop wasting time and start getting things done.

Build a Company Process to Avoid Corporate Politics

How do you know when it’s time to start building an official process at your company? How can well-defined processes help minimize company politics? When adding new employees feels harder than adding more work to your current employees and it’s hindering growth, it’s time to build processes. Processes may seem tedious, but without processes, workplace politics develop and make it a bad place to work. Continue on to learn how to build a company process.

Emergent Intelligence: The Source of Creative Solutions

What is emergent intelligence? What are some real-world examples of the emergent intelligence phenomenon? Emergent intelligence is the way intelligent properties come to be as a result of the interactivity of many low-level processes. Some examples of emergence include the ant colony structure, the free market economy, and the human consciousness. Keep reading to understand emergent intelligence.

The 3 Things All Productive Team Meetings Have

Do you want to know how to have productive team meetings at work? What are the top three flaws with the modern-day business meeting model? There are three significant issues with most meetings: a lack of drama, a lack of structure, and a lack of frequency. Here you will learn how to fix these issues and make your business meetings more productive and engaging with tips from Death by Meeting. Keep reading for tips on how to have more productive team meetings from Death by Meeting.

Tips on How to Fire Someone Professionally

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How do you fire someone professionally? What if that person is an executive or a loyal early employee? If you are a CEO, manager, or business owner, chances are that at some point in your career, you’ll need to fire somebody. Here is advice on how to fire someone professionally and how to handle different types of lay-offs. Continue on for advice on how to fire someone.

Low Employee Morale in Death by Meeting

In the business parable Death by Meeting, why does Yip Software have such low employee morale? What does Yip’s CEO Casey do to try to improve it? In Patrick Lencioni’s parable Death by Meeting, Casey struggles to increase his employees’ morale. He learns that many employees are unhappy with their pay and decides the best course of action is to sell his company to a larger and more profitable company to increase finances. Keep reading to learn about Playsoft’s acquisition of Yip Software in the Death by Meeting parable.