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?
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?
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.
Teams that can’t make decisions are cars without wheels.
Some teams advise. Other teams make decisions together.
If you’re on a team that makes decisions together, this post is for you.
This post includes a team decision-making tool you can download.
People learn to keep their mouths shut when new ideas face a firing squad.
Exploring an idea is different from agreeing with it.
“Don’t depend on others,” is a destructive scam.
Life is limited to individual achievement when you don’t depend on others.
How to depend on others…
