Medieval Team-Building Success: How One Bandit Leader Did It.
“Ye gads! We have stolen the very undergarments of the Lord & Lady of Nottingham.”
Team-Building In The Age of Discovery
I have been very researching historic approaches to team-building. Deep in a vault in the Royal Archives in Madrid I came upon this very illuminating document which was written by Christopher Columbus the day before he set out for that fateful voyage to America. As ever, the team-building techniques described herein belong to a different […]
Courtly Team-Building: Henry VIII’s Misguided Approach
I continue to dig and find material about historic team-building techniques. Deep in the bowels of the Palace of Whitehall in Westminster, the following document was recovered. It was written by King Henry VIII in 1532. At that point he was morbidly obese and suffering from gout. He had to be moved by means of […]
Richard Nixon Suggests Some Team-Building Activities
Well, I’ve had some really nice reactions to my blog series on historic approaches to team-building. The present article is from a relatively recent time, the 1970s, and I owe it to Calissa Furbian, a librarian at the Richard Nixon Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, California. https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/ She sent me a redacted transcript of […]
Team-Building In The Time of Napolean
I recently started researching the history of team-building and it coincided with a holiday to Paris. I asked if I could visit the Archives Nationales to see how the French do it, and I was delighted to be granted access. Even more special were the notes I found written by Napolean in 1799, during his […]
Team-Building In The Victorian Era
Whilst doing research on the history of team-building I came across a slew of articles from past eras which shed light on some rather dubious past attitudes towards team-building and human psychology in general. This first blog entry relates to a Victorian-era text I discovered in the arhives of Fotheringham House in Berkshire (England). Please […]