How to build great team any time
Teamwork
What's good for agile development is also good for running a company
Make and keep agreements
Intrinsic motivation
How do you get peers to do what you have them to do
Carrot and sticks won't work
Conversation models
Principle of the least invested coworker
Any team will perform to the levelof the person who cares the leastabout what the team is doing
Make a statement of objective
Make sure there is something greater than us that we have to do together
Being in it together
Achieved through dialogue
Prestep 1 is to take responsibility of 100% of the work of the team
The common myth
You got the skills they're just latent
We all learn the interpresonal dynamics and teamwork when we are at age of four
Engineers don't get training in a personal skills in school
Variables that tell most effective teams from least effective teams
Things that we can measure have barely an impact on teams peformance
Things that we can barely measure make most effective teams
17 indicators
Agility transition
Dynamics is crucial
Too much focus on mechanics
Accountability and responsibilityare not the same thing
The first key to success is to take 100% responsiblity for whatever you want
Accountability has to be smallerthen the sense of responsiblity
One will respond to anything that goes wrong
Responsibility
Keys to responsibility
Confront
Confronting ourselves is one of our least favoritethings in the world we want to do
The first thing to confront is to get off of that
the reason is we like to think we have a pretty good grip on reality right now
we avoid it like the plague
What am I not seeing that I could see
What I can learn and improve
Awareness
Study your life when you are in each of state
It's about getting knocked out of the flow
Islands
You are architect of your own life
Take ownership!
We have to say "no" to all of above internal anserws
Obligation
If we do things out of obligationwe do them barely to pass
Our performance in this state is no betterthan in previous states
We design our relationships around it
"Have to" - "Don't want to"
Shame
We are all humans
It's not resourceful learning status
Internal cause
Justify
We can refuse to accept this answerand move to the next island
The smarter you are the better stories you make up
External cause
That's just the way it is
That's the way it is around here
Blame
You can get stucked on it or you can get off of it
You cannot do anything about the problemassuming the cause is somewhere else
Blame is genetic mechanism(research confirmed that !)
Process launches you to the next islandif you get off of one
First reaction is lay blame"Who did it to me?"
Transient
Subjective
Different for each one of us
The feeling of ownership
Accountability
Process of making and keeping agreements
Elliot Jacks"Requisite Organization"
Holding peoples to accountfor failures and not gettingthings done
The reason we have job levels
Hyperformance teams
Shared responsibility
Three types of power
One is unrecognized
Two of the are celebrated
Power "of"
Power "with"
Available in abundance
Attracting people with ideas
Integrated power
Power "by"
Exchanging goods
Marketplace
Voting
Power "of"One "of another"
Boss-employee relationship
Parenting
Keneth Boulding
Theory of efficient gift
Explains value add in relationships
Costs virtually nothing
General systems theory
"Three faces of power"
