by Christie Koehler | Apr 4, 2016 | Book Summary
Summary: Our earliest experiences with Core Groups stay with us and become generalized. That is, without effort, we perceive and interact with all future Core Groups as if they were like the first ones we encountered. This hinders us from seeing the Core Groups of our...
by Christie Koehler | Mar 21, 2016 | Book Summary
Summary: Without effort, most Core Groups will tend toward the homogeneous and exclusionary. While you might derive strength though cohesion of an insular, non-diverse group, how do you know you aren’t missing something important as a result? Diversity is a key way to...
by Christie Koehler | Mar 17, 2016 | Book Summary
Summary: As CEO, you have formal authority, but it is constrained by guesswork as well as the priorities of the rest of the Core Group. The best way to use your power as CEO is to create the conditions out of which a great Core Group forms and operates. Who Really...
by Christie Koehler | Mar 17, 2016 | Book Summary
Summary: Some successful organizations have an “expanded Core Group,” meaning nearly everyone is part of the Core Group. The nature of these organizations varies, at each of them everybody’s welfare and development is one of the entire organization’s top priorities....
by Christie Koehler | Mar 16, 2016 | Book Summary
Summary: Jack Welch-style management can be an effective antidote to complacent bureaucracies. Unfortunately it can also easily take the warmth out of a business and leave fractured and isolated Core Group with little ability to inspire commitment, foster quality, and...
by Christie Koehler | Mar 15, 2016 | Book Summary
Who Really Matters (Amazon, Goodreads, Powells) puts forth the theory that central to every organization is a Core Group of people who really matter. This post is part of a series summarizing the book and covers Part 2, Chapter 9: “Doggie Treats”...
