ANTIPATTERN: NOT ENOUGH PEOPLE
Instead of focusing on the qualities of individuals needed to achieve results, you merely focus on the number of individuals.
PROBLEM
You blame a headcount shortage for your lack of results.
The available qualities[1] on a team matter more than the number of people on that team. If a given team task requires three distinct skills and your teammate Joe happens to have those three qualities, the following should hold true:
[1] Qualities, in the context of The Core, are positive, nonquantifiable properties of people, such as skills, virtues, and other winning personal attributes.
If Joe's needed qualities are available to him on demand,
And Joe's workload is wide open,
Then you can simply ask Joe to do the task. ...
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