Chapter 4. Dealing with survival mode
This chapter covers
- What survival mode means
- How to get out of survival mode
- How to utilize command leadership
Survival mode (I sometimes also call it the survival phase), where I think most teams are located these days, is what I define as “not having enough time to learn.”
Are you in survival mode?
If your team is constantly chasing its own tail and putting out fires, instead of having time to sit down and experiment, learn new things, and apply them in a manner that makes them stick, then you don’t have enough time to learn.
Can you send your team to a unit-testing course for a few days? Maybe. But when they come back, how much extra time do you provide for your team to apply what they’ve learned ...
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