Team Theme – Weekly Article Dump

Articles The Real Reason People Won’t Change: Admittedly, when I read this article on my phone the full posting wasn't available to me. I was only able to read the first page of the article, but the concept was enough to get me interested. "Competing commitments". Heard of it? I hadn't but it seems to explain a lot. Competing commitments are, as you might have expected, commitments to things that are in conflict. The article has a ton of examples, but the concept of competing commitments offers insight as to why some people seem stubborn in their ways, despite everything else being lined up for success. A simple example might be someone who is a die-hard advocate of the project they are working on and really wants it to succeed. However, they're actually inhibiting the success of the project because…

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The Problem With “There’s a Problem”

Problem? If you've ever had a job, as I'm sure anyone reading this has, you've probably been on the one side of this situation before. You tell your supervisor/leader/manager/someone-responsible-for-the-thing-with-the-problem that simply, "There's a problem". If you're in or have been in one of those positions I just listed, I'm sure you've been on the receiving end of it. But as I said, you probably did the same thing at one point so don't go holding it against anyone just yet. What's the big deal with telling someone there's a problem? I mean, don't you think someone should know if something is going wrong? Especially if they're the one in charge of it! We can't continue operation with this problem. We can't release the product to the customer with this thing missing or broken. We can't sell our product or service…

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