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Teams

Great teams have talent, leadership, attitude, and unity of purpose.  

Developing People

The more of a head start your organization gets in developing people individually and as teams, the more difficult it will be for competitors to ever catch up to you.

Teams

You don't select a team, you select a group of people and then work together to develop into a team.  Teams evolve.

Teams

Trust is the most fundamental element of a winning team.  If people think their teammates are lying, withholding information, or plotting against them, nothing valuable will be achieved.

Developing Teams

The same basic elements that work for individuals - well-designed practice activities, coaching, repetition, feedback, self regulation, building knowledge, and mental models all work for teams as well.  #teamdevelopment

Teams

Ask your teams to identify areas where greater autonomy would help them deliver a better customer experience or improve operations, and then carefully expand their decision-making prerogatives.   #teams   

#Teamwork

Research continually shows that group goals inspire people to work more quickly and for longer periods, pay more attention to the tasks that matter, become less distracted, and increase their overall efforts.

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Teamwork

People need to feel that "We're all in this together."  The risks seem less risky and goals seem more achievable when you are part of a team.  Great leaders make sure that people know that the leader is on the team with them.

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#Teams

If you give a team the full time that they ask for, or the full budget that they want, or the full number of people that they need, those teams never execute anything of significance.  But if you give them less, make things a little more challenging, they'll push themselves.  When they have some form of constraint, it forces them to have to think a unique way.

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Team Debugging

Engineers love debugging software because they know they can get 10% more efficiency by just making a few tweaks.  But we never focus on debugging human interactions.  We put great people together in teams and hope it will work, and sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't, and most of the time we don't know.

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