Want to Be More Effective (and Agile)? Rethink Three Classic Management Assumptions - Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant

When people collaborate as a team, they finish the work faster […] teams who plan and create and release together tend to be more effective and faster than teams where people work individually.

I’ve observed that when we come together organically, out of an innate need, we collaborate; When we institutionalise collaboration, we have meetings.

If we want teamwork, we need career ladders that reinforce teamwork, not individual work. That also means we need to reward people who aid other people in getting better.

When I was involved in building a career ladder (or “map” as we called it) we had a principle that the results of a manager meeting expectations should also be observable (and measurable) in the behaviours of the people they manage.