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chapter 31 Long-Term Team Health

And so we draw near the end of the team journey. We’ve identified all the problems, confusions, and misconceptions that have been keeping teams from performing, and taken steps to get them working the way they should. And you’ve kicked out the jams. Your group is a lean, mean teaming machine.

But the team journey doesn’t end here. Having attained a solid groove, you need to find ways to keep the team there, and to keep the groove from deteriorating into a rut. You want your team to stay hungry and in the chase—even if it has already experienced solid success, even if it is being rewarded and recognized the way it deserves to be.

Sports cliché alert: As hard as it is to win once, it’s tons harder to keep ...

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