What is Your Team Model?

By Jami Miedema Currently, I am engaged in a management course aimed at helping individuals work in a team environment.  After several sessions, each team was asked to produce a team model incorporating key points they deemed critical to the function of their group. ...

Shove Tradition off the Roof

By Rebecca Rooy Sometimes it seems like I’m surrounded and staring, wide-eyed, at cloned characters from the musical Fiddler on the Roof, bellowing “Tradition!” from the rooftops to unhearing ears. This insistent and unyielding mentality toward nonsensical traditions...