Super Bowl – Team Alignment Starts in the Trenches
It’s Super Bowl time again. We at Orgametrics are tied intimately to team sports and how those examples fit so well into the business world. Last year, we wrote three articles about the Super Bowl, including this one about offensive lines and how those players demonstrate joint accountability. We wrote another one about how the […]
How Mars Inc. HR Dept Drove Alignment in a Business
In our last post, we talked about the efforts of Carlos Valdes-Dapena, a former Director of Organizational and Group Effectiveness at Mars, Inc. from a recent HBR article Stop Wasting Money on Team Building. The post before that, we discussed connecting HR strategy with business strategy. Carlos did a great job of connecting the efforts of HR and […]
A look at how Mars’ HR Focused on Building Accountability and Teamwork
An interesting HBR article was posted by Carlos Valdes-Dapena, a former Director of Organizational and Group Effectiveness at Mars, Inc. about how he was involved in a project to help drive greater team performance in the company. The title of the post, Stop Wasting Money on Team Building, discussed how team building events many organizations partake […]
Does Your Team show High Joint Accountability? Super Bowl Offensive Lines Do. Here’s How.
On a Super Bowl-level football team, personal and joint accountability is shown clearly in the offensive line. Their performance in this key Orgametrics® alignment construct has helped put their teams in the Big Game. How is deep joint accountability obtained in a highly aligned offensive line? Each member of that line has specific duties to […]
