Using real work for Team Building moved the people on the team;
from functional autonomy to interdependence;
from lone experts to a collaborative, focused team;
from impulsive to disciplined;
from the use of experience and instinct to the use of data;
from separate functions to systems thinking.
Every organization, team, and person wants to do amazing work the problem is that many systems within organizations do not allow people to do this. In the conversation above that I had with an executive who is in the Exponent Leadership Process, we explored the system for creating High Performance Teams.
“If you don’t know what you will do, when you can do whatever you want, Right Now.
Then how can you possibly know what to do, when you can’t do whatever you want?”