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The game was tight. The lead had gone back and forth. And, there was a lot on the line. This was the Men’s AAU Basketball championship game for the greater Denver area. As the time wound down on the game clock our team had the final possession with less than ten seconds left. My team was down by one point. One of us would take the final shot. If it went in, we won. And if it didn’t, all those championship dreams that we had been harboring since the beginning of the tournament a couple of weeks before would be dashed. I always loved basketball. I was not good enough in high school to make the varsity. Yet, in college, I had grown four inches and had kept playing and practicing. I kept dreaming that someday I would be good enough to play on a high level. Now I was in graduate business school at the University of Denver and had become good enough to play on a very good AAU basketball team. We trained and worked out daily. The players in our league were either former college ...

The Tuckman-Jensen analysis of the stages of team building has become a foundational piece in understanding how teams come together or pull apart, how they perform well or fail to meet desired results. Tuckman and Jensen state that teams go through five stages of team development: 1. Forming—the search for commonalities 2. Storming-breaking away from false harmony into individual power displays, leading to rifts between team members. There is a tension in this stage between unity and individualism. 3. Norming-behavior in this stage is more about consensus between team members and more of a shift from “I” to “We.” 4. Performing-behavior at this stage shows that the members can self-lead. This stage focuses on problem solving and completing assigned tasks. 5. Adjourning-This allows a sense of completion for the team members. Otherwise, there can remain a festering feeling of unfinished business. All successful teams need to go through these stages. And, time needs ...

Self improvement does not change things overnight. It is about small things . You develop a new skill here or a new discipline there. And it is the accumulation of these over time that yield a positive harvest in the field that is life. When you embrace the process of self improvement there will be a positive ripple effect throughout your life . First comes internal change. You change your thinking. All change starts from within. Next, when you have changed your thinking you are now ready to change your habits . When you start changing your habits things start to change in our outside world. When you change your habits it will change your activity . With a change in activity comes a change in your results . And the change in results brings change in your life . Self improvement is your own personal elevator. As you rise to the top you will have to let some people off. You will have to let go of ways of thinking and ways of doing things. In fact, self improvemen...