Posts tagged: team

How To Make Great Teams Quit

07 Aug 2025 | Leadership

Let’s face it, we all know our teams could be better. Maybe they could take more initiative, handle more abstract problems, improve their capacity, address quality issues, or work better with peer groups. Every team has some areas it can improve.

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What Makes Good Teams Great

01 Oct 2024 | Leadership

For all the years I’ve been helping teams grow, I’ve rarely met one who felt that they were exceptional. It’s one of those quirky things where, in one conversation, the leadership will proclaim how great their teams are, and the next, pull me aside and beg for help. There are always issues, so I thought I’d write about some things I’ve noticed that turn good teams into great ones.

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The Dos and Don'ts of Refactoring

13 Aug 2024 | Leadership

Refactoring is one of those terms that shows up almost daily with engineering teams, yet for most, the definition is pretty loose. What’s more, that loose definition leads to actions that often have undesirable outcomes, delays, and arguments about how to handle the fallout. So, let me break down how I approach refactoring with engineers and teams.

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Managing a Self-Managed Team

15 Nov 2023 | Leadership

For years, folks have struggled with phrases like “self-organizing” and the newer “self-managed” regarding teams. I have met plenty of leaders and managers who have tried to figure out how to create teams with these qualities and find their own place when they work with teams like this. In this article, I want to talk through a few things to consider if you’re a leader interested in building self-managed teams.

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