Reading
Reading for managers
Field guides and arguments from Reason Talent, the team behind Spherikal, about the situations managers are actually in. Every number carries a source.
When two teams have goals that quietly compete
How to tell whether your problem is ownership, conflicting objectives, or no way to settle a disagreement.
Read it on reasontalent.com Field guideNobody wrote down what the two teams owe each other
Why support breaks down between teams that like each other, and what to check before you conclude it's a trust problem.
Read it on reasontalent.com Field guideBeing surprised by work you should have seen coming
Finding out too late, being left out of decisions, and absorbing requests that arrive with no warning.
Read it on reasontalent.com Field guideTwo teams solving the same problem separately
Mismatched tools, absent standards, and not knowing who to ask. Usually the conventions are the problem, not the systems.
Read it on reasontalent.com ArgumentCross-team friction is nobody's fault
The worst-performing item on an enterprise engagement survey was also the most load-bearing.
Read it on reasontalent.com ArgumentThe manager is not where your engagement problem lives
Four meta-analyses, one uncomfortable ranking. What a person brings to the job predicts their engagement better than who manages them.
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