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Someone I know quite well works in aerospace. The team they were on was identified as outperforming all the other similar teams. Rather than making all the othe

Someone I know quite well works in aerospace. The team they were on was identified as outperforming all the other similar teams. Rather than making all the other teams more like that team, they broke up the team and spread its members around like some kind of FTE pixie dust. Most of that team left the org within the next 24 months, and none of the teams they joined got better. Some got worse. Applying the “promote your best IC to be a manager” mindset applies to teams as well, and it’s a damn shame, because in both cases it usually results in the opposite of what anybody desires.

michaelmrose 3y ago
The truly ironic thing is that they could have mined that effective team for people to move with meaningful raises/promotions in other areas slowly, moved new folks into that team to be trained by them, had that team work with other teams, studied that team or dozens of ways of actually spreading around the pixie dust. They just decided to get the golden eggs by cooking the goose if I can switch to another metaphor midstream.