Building and Managing High-Performance Distributed Teams: Navigating the Future of Work

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A. S. Silveira Jr.Building and Managing High-Performance Distributed Teamshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7055-4_15

15. Learning from Mistakes

Alberto S. Silveira Jr.¹  

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Mount Kisco, NY, USA

 

I was crewing in a regatta once where we failed big time. We failed, not because of any physical defect in the boat or its gear or even because of the weather. We didn’t even fail because of the other teams’ superior strength or talent, but because we made a mistake in not identifying and recovering properly from a team misalignment in communication.

At the start of the race, our captain shared the coordinates and final instructions with the crew, as is the practice, ...