http://www.team-intelligence.com Turning A-players into A-teams ... Sat, 06 Dec 2008 13:45:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Kalexo is showing off the latest in our unified collaboration technology at the A+D Museum in Los Angeles on Dec 6.  Here is a link to the symposium  and to the Kalexo web site for the event. http://www.team-intelligence.com/?p=23 In many knowledge-intensive service-oriented verticals, working as a team to handle the overwhelming work load from your clients is of critical importance.  As a typical example, partners in law firms are typically completely overwhelmed with requests from several dozen or more of their clients, and are looking for ways to ... http://www.team-intelligence.com/?p=22 Wikipedia has the following to say about RIAs: Rich Internet applications (RIA) are web applications that have the features and functionality of traditional desktop applications. RIAs typically transfer the processing necessary for the user interface to the web client but keep the bulk of the data (i.e maintaining the state of ... http://www.team-intelligence.com/?p=21 I found an interesting article at Computerworld with the following tag line: Even the most sophisticated company is really a bunch of people making promises to one another. One of the interesting statements it contains is that a promise is stronger if it is made in public.  The same dynamics apply for ... http://www.team-intelligence.com/?p=19 From TechRepublic: Know why the organizer called the meeting Know what you want from the meeting List what you need to say Take the meeting minutes Keep to the rules of order Reflectively listen in information meetings Set things that derail aside Ask for action items End the meeting when it is done Ask questions afterwards Agendas are the most ... http://www.team-intelligence.com/?p=18 Research available from here indicates that although teamwork does have a positive correlation with your financial performance, it does not seem to make a difference whether the team is autonomous or not: The results of this study confirm the popular belief in management circles that team production is a good ... http://www.team-intelligence.com/?p=17 It seems like the things you assume about how a great startup is born might be misleading you.   I  am starting to suspect that the most valuable things I've learned at the previous companies I worked at was what not to do. http://www.team-intelligence.com/?p=16 Wikipedia has the following to say about persuasion: Persuasion is a form of influence. It is the process of guiding people toward the adoption of an idea, attitude, or action by rational and symbolic (though not only logical) means. It is a problem-solving strategy and relies on "appeals" rather than force. The ... http://www.team-intelligence.com/?p=15 We've been asked many times where the name Kalexo comes from.  Since every word in practically every language is already registered as a domain name, it is really hard to come up with a name.  When the company was founded, we did not know what we were going to build, ... http://www.team-intelligence.com/?p=14 Kalexo is  the name of the software startup that I am involved with.  Our interest is how to better handle the mess of work that happens when a team grows large.  Getting on the same page and staying there is pretty hard when you have a large team and a ... http://www.team-intelligence.com/?p=13