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Team Lessons from Dolphins
0 Comments Published by Rick Rumford January 19th, 2010 in Leadership, Team Building, productivity.This clip of dolphins hunting is interesting and has a few parallels to how we humans act, or should act, when we are part of a team.
Team of Dolphins
A few thoughts about the dolphins:
They have found a way to hunt that no other dolphins, nor any other water-based species, have developed. Interestingly, the dolphin team utilizes only […]
My Favorite Books of 2009
0 Comments Published by Rick Rumford January 1st, 2010 in Book Reviews, Leadership, Team Building, Training Resources, Vision, decision making, problem solving.I love to read and usually have two or three books going at one time. Looking back on my year and on what I learned, I thought it might be interesting to identify a few that had the most impact on me. Here are a baker’s dozen that I found stimulating. I liked the first […]
Making Decisions: The Peril of Too Many Choices
0 Comments Published by Rick Rumford September 9th, 2009 in decision making, problem solving.“Choice is good.” In fact, it is a uniquely American core value!
I was recently shopping in a high end grocery store and was surprised to find that I had over 50 choices of coffee flavors from which to choose. Moving on to the refrigerated beer aisle to check out the selection for my other favorite […]
Decision Making: Learning to Close Doors
0 Comments Published by Rick Rumford June 7th, 2009 in Leading Change, decision making, problem solving.“Every choice is a renunciation.”
This quote by Thomas Aquinas cited in a recent article by Ronald Rolheiser, a Catholic priest writing in the Texas Catholic Herald, made me literally stop reading and think! I mean that I put down the paper and stared blankly into space for at least five minutes. The starkness of the […]
An Earth Day Idea: Problem Solving through Biomimicry
0 Comments Published by Rick Rumford April 22nd, 2009 in problem solving.Since today is the 39th celebration of Earth Day, I figured it is a good time to look at an earth friendly problem solving technique: Biomimicry. Problem solving is such an important part of our daily life that we sometimes fail to consider how we actually go about the task of solving our problems. We […]
The Power Of Body Language
0 Comments Published by Rick Rumford February 10th, 2009 in Book Reviews, Leadership, Meeting Facilitation.In my work in helping clients deal with team communication issues, we often spend time talking about the unspoken communication that takes place between team members. We all know that in many cases it is our body language that tells the real message rather than the actual words we use.
People are always asking me about […]
Slideshare: Great Tool for Meeting Facilitators
0 Comments Published by Rick Rumford February 2nd, 2009 in Leadership, Leading Change, Meeting Facilitation, Training Resources.I just started using Slideshare and it is a really great source of PowerPoint slides on tons of topics. Check out this one on Change. It is really cool - and a little scary!
If you are a meeting facilitator or if you have to make a presentation, this site should be a first stop as you […]
Problem Solving: The Downside of Focus
0 Comments Published by Rick Rumford January 28th, 2009 in problem solving, productivity.Check out this Perception Test video clip before you read the rest of this post. While you are watching the video count the number of passes between the players in the white shirts.
Perception Test Video Clip.
Did you notice anything unusual about the video? If not, you are not alone. About half of the people who watch […]
Problem Solving: Ask a New Question
0 Comments Published by Rick Rumford December 17th, 2008 in problem solving, productivity.Problem solving sometimes requires us to look at things from a totally different perspective. For example, look at the new and innovative idea that Dr. Kristian Olson and his colleagues came up with to fight preventable infant death in developing countries - after they changed how they viewed the problem.
The idea? How about putting babies […]
Power Naps - Your Competitive Edge
0 Comments Published by Rick Rumford December 4th, 2008 in problem solving, productivity.I have long been an advocate of taking a good nap. Now, according to Dr. William Fishbein, a neuroscientist at City University of New York, I have evidence that that I am not a slacker!
Dr. Fishbein presented his findings about napping and “slow-wave sleep” at a recent meeting of the Society of Neuroscience. He found […]
