For the last few decades, teams and teamwork have taken on a larger and much more important role in the working world. Employers and upper management have come to realize that value is added in productiveness and, therefore, in profitability, if employees can work in teams.

Your Power Factor is a combination of your energy, your bandwidth and your support systems. As entrepreneur's, our greatest asset is our creativity and ambition. But if our Power Factor is being compromised, then your bottom line can take the hit.

The big companies like Chevrolet and Coke have been run by several CEO's over the years. What has made these companies so successful? For one thing, it's because they know how to manage their replacement of their key players - they use a process called succession planning.

Having an efficient leader in an organization is one of the best investments of the organization. In fact, it is like a two way process. While individual efforts give a sense of recognition to a person, accomplishing a great task through teamwork can be a great reward beyond comparison.

I've learned over the years that a breakdown means that something very valuable is happening - I have new insight into how I can improve my process, my attitude, or my belief so that problem never happens again. Here are six sanity-saving scenarios that can turn that breakdown into a breakthrough.

Recruitment standards are a critical component of assembling a strong management team to fit your company's needs. Maintaining recruitment standards ensures you are getting qualified people, who fit well into the mechanics of your business. Why is this important and anyway, what can you do about it? Read on...

I know you don't have a strategic marketing team. I know everybody in your organization is too busy doing what must be done today to attend one more meeting or be happy about being put on another committee.

Building a successful team inside your organization is vital to the success of your company. Giving your employees the chance to feel they are part of something bigger than themselves offers your company the benefit of happier employees. Here's why, and some clues to how you do it...

Our words can be friendly, cutting, uplifting and empowering or destructive and soul destroying. With your words you can build your team up or drag them down. What do your words do?

Summary: If you are a business owner you are the coach calling in the plays and working to defeat whatever it is that is in opposition to your winning the game. This could be working through your business plan, working through marketing issues, hiring new staff, developing new product lines and realizing that you are responsible for calling the plays – you can’t simply sit on the sidelines and hope things turn out all right.