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Build A Tag Team

By alik levin

May 5th, 2008 | Leadership


Are you part of a team? How do you build a tag team? How to achieve flawless execution of each member and the whole team?

by Karpfish

Here is my take

“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.” - Henry Ford

Stomp Out Loud is my vision for how tag team should look like.



10 comments ↓

#1 Shilpan | successsoul.com on 05.05.08 at 11:16 am

Alik -

Bravo! You’re getting astute with you concise yet powerful writing. It’s hard to add anything to what you’ve mentioned about team building. Team building to me is a collective conscious of individual achievement.

Shilpan

#2 alik levin on 05.05.08 at 11:54 am

Shilpan, thanks for nice words ;)

Actually I forgot this one - “Love your dogs”

http://blogs.msdn.com/jmeier/archive/2007/12/31/love-your-dogs.aspx


3 Messages for Corporate Leaders
Quarls, Pernsteine, and Rangan have three messages for corporate leaders:

- Fixing your dogs can yield unexpected levels of shareholder value.
- Improving operations is an important management lever for adding shareholder value.
- Buying and fixing someone else’s dogs will produce more shareholder value than buying stars.

#3 Vered - MomGrind on 05.05.08 at 3:36 pm

“Hire potential, not skills” is really smart. Although I’m not sure it’s the way it always works, especially not in the U.S. job market. It’s how I got most of my jobs - I made several career changes, so couldn’t offer skills, but rather a potential, the ability to work as a team player, and to learn those skills. Employers were able to see that, and hired me, despite lack of certain skills.

#4 alik levin on 05.05.08 at 9:39 pm

Vered, it is too cool. How did you make the employers see your potential? What was the technique?

#5 blogrdoc.com/blog on 05.06.08 at 5:17 pm

One challenge that I’ve had, however, is that judging potential is much harder than looking at skills. Also - I’ve noticed that what you see in the interview is night/day with ‘what you get’. I’d love to hear any insights you - or anyone in a hiring position - would have on this. I’ve been on the interview committee for a number of people, engineers and technicians.

#6 alik levin on 05.06.08 at 6:39 pm

E-x-a-c-t-l-y!!!
That is why i love doing the following the most:
- Role play. Pretending i am really tough customer (i mean really tough…), i am trying to recognize the creativity in the potential candidate. Trying to identify the point when the candidate give up.
- Ask very simple questions like “why should i hire you?”. I am always surprised how many people surprised with this question.
- Asking simple question “Why you want to work for us?”. I am trying to recognize the passion. Worst answer I heard was “I heard you have great salaries”.

have you checked on this one?
http://practicethis.com/2007/05/30/how-i-conduct-interview/

also check on this book:
http://www.amazon.com/EFFECTIVE-WAYS-HIRING-SMART-People-Reading/dp/1580085148/

#7 Vered - MomGrind on 05.09.08 at 12:08 am

I don’t know. :)

But I was honest, and straightforward, and I guess I conveyed the message that I really am a fast learner and a team player. Plus I had great references.

I am feeling a little braggy for saying all this. But since you asked…

#8 alik levin on 05.09.08 at 4:49 am

Vered,
Thanks for sharing this.

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