Teams always need help. Even teams that are gifted, focused and high-functioning (and there are precious few of these) tend to run into the same challenges and face the same tensions time and time again. Within the voice and structure of OKA’s newest team tool, the TPI (Team Performance Inventory),
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Relinquishment, Diminishment and Otto’s Big Mouth—an Otto Kroeger Remembrance
1998 Otto loved cruising around Lake Barcroft on his boat—with company, always with company. I was with him on one of these lake cruises—this time, uncharacteristically, scotch and donuts were our only companions. It was a damp, gray autumn day, the wind off the water hinting at winter. Otto, 64
11 Otto Lessons: An Otto Kroeger Remembrance
Otto left this life in 2013, but his influence in my life is still constant and potent. I decided to write down the five most important lesson Otto taught me. Here are the 11 gems all competing for a spot in my top five. 1. Never drink without a “clink.” Otto loved to party, and until
The Teacher Showman — An Otto Kroeger Remembrance
Teacher or Actor? When I was a kid, I could not decide if I wanted to be a teacher or an actor. Teachers seemed to have a great and important gig, but then I saw Paul Newman and Steve McQueen in The Towering Inferno, and acting seemed like the better way to go. In high school and college I did some
Intimacy and the Feeling Functions–An Otto Kroeger Remembrance
Extraverted Feeling Extraverted Feeling is an external force of judgment, order and control based on human-centered, personally held values. Extraverted Feeling is a function that--among other things--builds personal bridges and networks, includes and seeks to be included (where values align),