Good leaders know that alignment is critical in building successful teams. Unfortunately, many of them don’t do it often enough. Frequently leaders adopt a one-and-done, event-based mentality, for ...

Early in my career, I was a sports anchor in Los Angeles. One of my first assignments was to cover the L.A. Lakers or, as they were called then, the "Showtime Lakers." The nickname came from the ...

When filling the axes of the alignment matrix, start in the upper left corner and set it to 0. Next, assign a score for each letter in the row or column. Note that there is a penalty for gaps, and ...

The same process is carried out for the next square in the alignment. Here, using the value in upper left (brown) square yields a sum of -2, using the value in the upper (green) square yields a sum of ...