I’ve batted this idea back and forth many times in my head, what is the best size for a team? At what size does the team remain too small to not accomplish enough and at what size does a team become too large that more time is spent on administration, overhead and the team eventually starts to slow. Whether it’s a startup or an established company, team cohesion and leadership is critical to success. What…
Almost a year ago, I did a Slideshare presentation on How to Build a Great Team. This is the follow-up to that presentation with The Villains of a Great Team which includes the familiar comic book slant as included in How to Build a Great Team but focussed around what character traits you need to watch for so they don’t take over and dominate your team as well as how to eliminate from your team dynamic. https://www.slideshare.net/GregThomas3/the-villains-of-a-great-team
It’s interesting to see the aftermath of a mistake. Someone says something wrong, well they are going to do it again so let’s write them off. Someone didn’t approach the problem in the way you would have and it went sideways, not doing that again. Someone tried beyond their hardest, went too far and well we wouldn’t want that person to try again now would we. Someone was already overloaded with everything else on their plate and…
You know all that great code you wrote last night when you were “in the zone”? Or all those spreadsheets and budget files you’ve been working on for the past few weeks that amount to not an hour, but hours and hours, almost full days of work? Still not feeling it? Take something really important from your current device of choice – your computer, laptop, phone, whatever – the most important thing you can think of…
Someone isn’t going to like how you coded that interface today. The latest chapter of your book is going to be ripped apart for the plethora of grammar errors running through it. What you thought was a good document, will be dissected and discarded. All that studying you put in, was on the wrong chapter. Your email etiquette just didn’t make the cut today. Years of slaving away on that product was torn apart by one…