Chapter 4. INEFFECTIVE TEAM PLAYERS
Sometimes we try too hard to help the team. We are so committed to the team effort, so absorbed in our view of what the team needs, that we become ineffective. We overemphasize the importance of task completion, goal direction, process, or challenging the status quo. Even though we have the best of intentions, we get to the point that Stuart Atkins called "too much of a good thing" (Atkins, 1981).
The team may be doing well and the team players may seem to be doing well when, almost without notice, one will go over the boundary. The effective team player becomes a drain on the team. The helpful comments are now barriers to success. In this case, there is such a thing as too much helptoo much team play.
Some team ...
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