Sunday, January 22, 2012
How do Teams Continue to Win during Times of Turmoil and Uncertainty?
By Dominica DeGrandis
We had a big snow this week. Twelve inches total, a forty-three year record in our part of Puget Sound country. We lost power for ten hours – no furnace, no computer, no lights. No problem - I cozied up to an emergency kerosene stove and opened Jim Collins’ new book, Great by Choice, a study of winning behavior when confronted by uncertainty - with comparisons between companies that win and companies that languish. I was especially fascinated by the parallels I see between the behavior of Jim Collins’ winners and key concepts that we teach with Kanban for coping with uncertainty.
