Congressive Management Techniques: Gardening Your Team
summary
Six concrete claims and tactics: a six-area framework (forming/storming/norming/performing/adjourning), three hiring heuristics (hire for team needs, not stars), and three steps to resolve test-team tension: expose sources, share needs, explore resources. Practical tools include pairing, retrospectives, internal workshops, coaching and promotions that reward glue work. An example team increases revenue, splits into two teams, and the talk argues that de-centering managers and growing leader culture prevents brittle hero culture.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:40Building Trust
- 7:36Hiring
- 8:48Three things to look for
- 12:09Talking to candidates
- 13:53Growing your people
- 14:50Ignore it
- 15:28Illuminate it
- 16:16Redirect
- 17:42Squash
- 18:31Behavioral Norms
- 28:21Leader Culture
- 29:19Manager Culture
- 29:57Conflict Resolution
- 31:53Recap
- 32:39Outtakes
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