I’ve never wanted a Michigan Football team to win more than this one.
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Superteams don’t just achieve hard goals, they elevate the performance of teams they collaborate with.
Even the best teams and organizations I’ve been part of underperform their potential. We can and should learn from failures. But we can learn just as much from successes with the right questions and approach.
This is an OKR-based model to define what a good manager actually produces. It’s hard to be good at something without beginning with the end in mind, after all.
To scale impact, every team leader has to build their team. Building a team is hard, but it’s not complicated.
To set us up for success, they key thing to do is get specific about the role, and the top 2-3 things we can’t compromise on in a candidate.
If leadership is essentially an act of taking responsibility, how do we create teams where more people take responsibility?
For our marriages to survive and thrive - whether to our soulmate or not - we have to believe that life is better done together, not solo. No amount of love, destiny, resources, compatibility, or compromise can make up for not having this pre-requisite shift in mindset.
In hindsight, approaching organizational life - whether it’s in our family, marriage, our work, or our community groups - with the expectation that we’ll have conflict is so obviously a good idea. If we’re intentional, we can design conflict resolution into our routines and make our relationships and teams stronger because of it.