The BLUE TUESDAY Report - December, 2009, Week 3

It's the TNNW BLUE TUESDAY Report!

- Today's Wisdom: "You gots to pay ya dues if you wants to sing da blues."

SUPERCHARGED NETWORKING : TURNING CONTACTS INTO BUSINESS.

In this issue: Part 1:  In This Issue... Part 2:  BLUE THINGS (a.k.a. Intelligence Items) Part 3:  Selected Advertisers In This Issue... Wishing you and your loved ones a Joyous Holiday Season!!! 1.)  TIME IS RUNNING OUT ON THIS MONTH'S SURVEY (BLUE THING #1) about U.S. economic recovery...over or just the beginning? - voice your opinion now. 2.)  AMAZING NEW FACTS AND STATISTICS (BLUE THING #3) this week we present some Christmas facts. 3.)  MOST MEMORABLE QUOTE OF THE WEEK (BLUE THING #7).  QuoteAction's  Rick Itzkowich lives for the power and message of famous quotes.  See what's on his mind this week. 4.)  GREAT WEBSITES AND BLOGS TO EXPLORE (BLUE THING #8).  Set a course for adventure!  Alphabetical zoo - great for families.  A real life Hobbit-inspired, low-impact house.  Internet browser market share timeline.  2009 Worst Prediction:  Particle Accelerator causes Doomsday.  Read the world's greatest classics online for free.  Discover the 8 principles of fun.  Lessons for hand drumming enthusiasts and more. 5.)  BACKTALK (BLUE THING #10).  Like reading TNNW articles?  Join the crowd and here what they have to say about us! BLUE THINGS: Collect them all!  Be the first on your block!  Intelligently yours, Adam and Douglas Blue Things (a.k.a. Intelligence Items)

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Mastermind Groups versus Committees

MASTERMIND GROUPS VERSUS COMMITTEES

Dear Friends:

I have finally learned how to differentiate between "Mastermind Groups" and "Committees". The key to identifying which type of enterprise is in question is in the result produced!  While this retrospective categorization is inconvenient (in fact, it seems at first blush to be just about as useful as "predicting the past"), in can work. Here are the outcomes by which you can judge the type of enterprise:

1.     If the result is indecision, anger, or the creation of a camel instead of a horse, you have witnessed the workings of a committee;

2.     If the result is a decision (of some type, about some issue), the giving out of assignments, but with the ultimate burden to do substantially everything somehow falling upon one of the members as soon as the meeting has ended, you have witnessed the workings of a typical mastermind group.

It is significant to note that neither of these two types of enterprises is usually a team, and that both types tend to be tremendously inefficient in terms of productivity as well as in an equitable allocation of responsibility.

Faithfully,

Douglas Castle
p.s. Transforming groups of individuals into real teams takes powerful, focused, results-driven leadership. Headless creatures (with the notable exceptions of chickens and cockroaches) don't move...they tend to stagnate and then die. This is, in major part, what makes democracy such a formidable challenge.


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