How To Prove You’re Reliable
Trust takes time? Actually, only reliabilty takes time. And sometimes–not even that.
Author Archive for: Sandy Styer
Entries by Sandy Styer
Building Trust in Virtual Teams: Real Challenges and Solutions
“I could look him in the eye.” “We do deals on a handshake.” “She has an honest face; I trusted her from the get-go.” When we’re working or dealing with other people face-to-face, we send and receive all kinds of clues and indicators that help us assess trustworthiness, and by which we can show others they can […]
The 5 Principles of a Minnesota Methodist
A quick lesson from a Minnesotan with her own perspectives on life’s principles
Amy Gross on Discipline
Can we create a new “discipline” today?
How v. Why, and Why Not?
The May issue of the Center For Creative Leadership’s e-newsletter features a short blurb on a new book by journalist and author Brian Carney. The book is called Freedom, Inc. and the article begins this way: "We trust people to be adults in so many areas of their lives. But when they walk through the doors at […]
The Rule of Non-Recurring Events
The one “rule” of life–no regrets.
At the Corner of Assertiveness & Cooperation: Collaboration
Collaboration is not like compromise: it’s a distillation, a win-win, a synthesis.
Apollo 13: A Love Song to Collaboration
“Houston, we have a problem.” Famous words uttered by Jim Lovell in the real Apollo 13 mission, and by Tom Hanks as Lovell in the great movie Apollo 13. The mission, we know, was a ‘successful failure’ in that they didn’t reach the moon, but the three astronauts, Lovell, Swigert and Haise, got home safely. […]
Trust and Virtual Teams
Onpoint Consulting does study on best practices for virtual teams
Five Good Reasons to Trust a Crone
Remember the crone, the multi-faceted older woman from fairy tales, the archetype from modern psychology? She’s the old woman, often ugly, sometimes malicious, and always possessing magical powers due to her proximity to the next world. In Robert Graves’s writings she is the third side of the Triple Goddess: the Maiden, the Mother and the Crone. Her role […]