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A healthy team is a team with high social capital: a team that seeks the common good, where people clean up after themselves and volunteer to help others. Every
by partycoder 9y ago
A healthy team is a team with high social capital: a team that seeks the common good, where people clean up after themselves and volunteer to help others. Everyone wants the best idea to prevail. All this while preserving critical thinking and trusting other people with the feedback that is necessary to improve. Their most important competitor is another company.
An unhealthy team is a team with low social capital: a team that seeks individual gain and people force others to pick up after their technical debt. Everyone wants their own idea to prevail. All this while avoiding any form of uneasy conversation and withholding feedback. Their most important competitor is each other.
- 0xFFFE 9y agoI couldn't agree more, once team members start focusing on personal glory they lose the big picture. From that point onwards team becomes an inefficient machine with sustained decay.
- firepoet 9y agoAbsolutely! And I've seen companies with reward structures that focus on individual performance cause a lot of these unhealthy teams to arise unwittingly.
- AstralStorm 9y agoTo a point. When the entire team is essentially stonewalled, not given agency or overloaded it will degrade.
- w_t_payne 9y agoI agree. I also think that there are far too many unhealthy teams in the world.