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Five days provide enough urgency to sharpen focus and cut out useless debate, but enough breathing room to build and test a prototype without working to exhaustion.
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40 |
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Slow decisions sap energy and threaten the timeline… Don’t let the group dissolve into unproductive debates that aren’t moving you toward a decision.
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91 |
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Talking out loud is risky. Humans are social animals, and when our natural impulses to discuss and debate take over, time disappears.
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135 |
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Without… passionate and open debate, team members rarely, if ever, buy in and commit to decisions, though they may feign agreement during meetings.
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189 |
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When team members do not openly debate and disagree about important ideas, they often turn to back-channel personal attacks, which are far nastier and more harmful than any heated argument over issues.
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203 |
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Constructively debating tough issues and getting somewhere is only possible when people can speak their minds without fear of punishment.
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117 |
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An organization that has a culture that can deal with these two phases – debate (chaos reigns) and a determined march (chaos reined in) – is a powerful, adaptive organization.
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162 |
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You can’t beat a problem by debating it, only by deciding what you’re going to do about it and then doing it.
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117 |
