S03E11 The Chess and Checkers Episode
Update: 2024-02-28
Description
Check-In:
- If you could live anywhere, where would you live and why?
Big Ideas:
- when books make leadership seem easy, when it's not
- 5 elements that every team needs to function well together, written as a pyramid
- using books as a guide can lead us down the wrong path
- The 5 Dysfunctions are: Absence of Trust, Fear of Conflict, Lack of Commitment, Avoidance of Accountability, and Inattention to Results
- Lencioni is anti-consensus
- Can people have results without trust? (example - the Chicago Bulls of the 1990's)
- Trusting someone's character and capabilities
- Peer review of models
- Books can be seeds of discussion, but not guides for team performance
- Components of trust, and signs when trust is absent
- Trust not being valued by a manager - it being seen as too "fluffy"
- Does the importance of trust depend on the type of team you are within the organization?
- If everyone's competing for the CEO's job, how can you trust those you work with?
- Power in organizations - the individual versus the group
- How can one be political without being egotistical?
- Politics is making your power concrete. It's not bad or good in nature. It's a tool.
- What am I applying my politics for?
- Playing the game without playing the game. Being aware of the game and playing it for the good of the company.
- We teach people NOT to play politics at work, and then they get into organizations where people are all playing different games
- When people suffer when they don't know the rules of the game they are playing
- Play the game to be a successful contribution to the organization
- Belief that good people don't politics - it's not the tool, it's what you do with them that matters
- Can you win the fight being a good, upstanding person?
- Power is largely due to the collective sum of all the relationships you have within an organization.
- Fear driven relationships aren't relationships - they are transactional
- Choosing NOT to play the game, can be seen as more ethical
Resources:
- The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni
- Amy Edmondson and Psychological Safety
- Edgar Shein and Psychological Safety
- Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
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