Is The Vision for Your Team Big Enough?

Teams everywhere are BROKEN, and leaders need to ask the following three questions:

Are the stakes big enough? Have you created a Point of No Return? Have you burned the boats?
Have you created an environment where most of the people can do the right thing most of the time without supervision?
Is the accountability to the right & left; or is it up & down? Do you have true commitment versus mere compliance, and is the loyalty to each other versus you and the organization?
For leaders addressing the issues of a dysfunctional team, the best tool is the bathroom mirror accompanied by this question:

Can you push yourself out of your own comfort zone?

We had another round of five fine guest speakers today – all of whom are contributing to the burgeoning economy of Northern Ireland:

Philip Maguire, Director of Finance & Administration, Catalyst Inc
Mervyn Watley, Director of Corporate Real Estate & Facilities, Catalyst Inc
Peter Hall, Committee Clerk, Northern Ireland Assembly
Gary Hamilton, Founder and former CEO, Omiino
Bryan Keating, Entrepreneur, Board Member, Angel Investor

The students also started working on projects in five fascinating start-up companies, and they’ll present what they learned (and delivered) on June 13th to the Irish Network of Colorado, and the Denver business community:

Aiden Flynn, CEO, Exploristics
Paul Brown, CEO, Displaynote
Dan Loughlin, CEO, IRP Commerce
David Crozier, Head of Strategic Partnerships & Engagement, Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT) & ECIT Institute
Philip McAleese, Founder, SeeSense

Lastly, listed below are all the links to the student’s brilliant blogs and insights about their work thus far!