III Teams

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. Leo Tolstoy

17. Devolved decision-making

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. Peter Drucker

18. Team strategy

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. General George S. Patton

19. Stable teams

You can’t have great software without a great team, and most software teams behave like dysfunctional families. Jim McCarthy, Dynamics of Software Development

20. Team lifecycle

No organization which purposefully and systematically abandons the unproductive and obsolete ever wants for opportunities. Peter Drucker, Age of Discontinuity, 1992

By definition, innovative ideas look like bad ideas, and if they didn’t, everyone would have them. Bill Gross, Investment Fund Manager

21. Team lifecycle – another example

We began with this idea of Bob’s [Robert Rauschenberg] that you work with what’s available, and that way the restrictions aren’t limitations, they’re just what you happen to be working with. Steve Paxton, dancer