First Steps during chaos

Team Leader Manifesto - Take #4

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Here's what I have, before speaking at NDC next morning:

The Team Leader Manifesto: We believe great teams are grown, not hired. A team leader continuously grows the skills of the people in their team to the point of self-organization.

We believe

Great Teams Are Grown, Not Hired.

The goal of a team leader is to continuously grow the skills of the people in their team to the point of self-organization.

Happier teams make happier customers and employers.

To achieve this goal, we must continuously pursue:

  • Challenging ourselves and our teams to become better, instead of keeping everyone in their comfort zone
  • A just-in-time adaptive leadership style, instead of a one-style-fits-all leadership approach
  • Participating in human interaction at least as much as we do with machines