Dogs are designed to act in specific ways. If you can’t choose the people on your team, ask how they can thrive.
Huskies pull.
Saint Bernards rescue.
Pugs love attention.
Golden Retrievers guide.
Greyhounds race.
People are like dogs. Greyhounds won’t thrive guiding. Don’t expect pugs to rescue.
How to thrive with the team you have?
Empathy destroys us when it makes excuses. Grit is pressing forward.
Getting beyond resilience multiplies competence.
Delicate teams argue over trivialities.
Avoiding discomfort leads to weakness.
The feeble need rescue. The competent grow through challenge.
Resilience survives. Antifragile* teams thrive.
Here’s how to get beyond resilience and turn adversity into advantage.
The Proximity Principle: People tend to serve people they see, touch, and spend time with.
What you don’t see seems easy. You assume others have it easy. People who aren’t seen often feel undervalued.
Hybrid work makes detachment easy.
Potential expands when you connect to real people doing real work.
How to make hybrid work, work?
Don’t collaborate on everything. Everyone shouldn’t make every decision. Everyone doesn’t have to agree on every decision.
Collaboration backfires when it dilutes responsibility.
Lack of accountability means collaboration stagnation.
Smart teams outperform smart individuals.
3 Practices That Build Smart Teams
Use these practices to build one you’re proud to lead.
Smart teams are never an accident. They’re built, not born.
This post is loaded with practices you can implement today.
Tension on the team turns small obstacles into toxic distractions.
The problems we have with each other destroy us. External challenges invite teams to depend on each other. But we can’t rise when we beat each other down.
The people we can’t confront run the team.
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