Intentions Why do you want to be a part of this? Why are we doing this? How might this support your personal goals? What values of yours led you to get involved? Concerns What worries you about the team, our plan, and so on? What do you think will get in our way? Where will we run into trouble? If this fails, why will it fail? Boundaries What do
... See moreBob Gower • Radical Alignment: How to Have Game-Changing Conversations That Will Transform Your Business and Your Life
To get through the tension, try to understand other people's positions and perceptions: How does this mess look to them? What does their mental model look like? What words do they use? Could your language mislead them? Do they agree with the intent, direction, and goals you outlined? Do they agree on the level you're working at?
Abby Covert • How to Make Sense of Any Mess: Information Architecture for Everybody
Some Advice / Thoughts
Start with rituals, behaviors, and interactions before worrying about what you try to operationalize and codify. Can the right people interact at the right times, in the right ways, supported by the right information?
Be very selective about what you centralize and attempt to make consistent. At the same time, accept that
John Cutler • TBM 350: Connecting Dots
The group needs to learn:
- What everyone else thinks about the challenge: What is happening? What’s the real challenge?
- What they themselves believe is possible — what futures can be created with this group?
- What does the group believe is possible?
- What are we willing to try? How much risk are we willing to endure?
- How committed is the group to the
Daniel Stillman • Team Work is Team Learning — Daniel Stillman
“Almost always, when I look at a team or project at a larger org trying to make a decision with differences in opinions, the root of those differences almost always starts with shared context,” Weiss says. “Or lack thereof.”
The first step to identifying if your team is lacking shared context is to ask yourself a series of questions, Weiss says.... See more
The first step to identifying if your team is lacking shared context is to ask yourself a series of questions, Weiss says.... See more