The Man Who Needs a New Tractor is Already Paying for it

What applies to machinery applies just as much to building teams. An irreparably broken machine leaves no option but to replace it or stop the business it was used for. A machine that does not work very well offers more options. Do you pay the cost of replacement now or put up with sub standard or interrupted service for a while. The investment cost is deferred but the operational and lost opportunity costs go up.

Teams that don’t work very well, that are somehow less the sum of their parts create exactly the same dilemma. They cost a business every day but in a manner we find difficult to notice, quantify or pay attention to.

It’s prudent to fix the roof whilst the sun shines. Building high performance teams is the same. Don’t wait until it’s broken.

Metris Leadership helps businesses build high performance teams, optimized for the challenges of the 21st Century because great teams provide standout competitive advantage.

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Do You Know Any Good Stories?

Amos was an old Askari, a night watchman in the highlands of Kenya. He told me once how electricity had come to their village and that it made him sad because they no longer gathered around the fire together to tell stories. Instead, each stayed in his own house, enthralled…

Freedom Inside Constraints

The Legendary Basketball coach John Wooden[1], would begin each new season by sitting down his new players and demonstrating to them how they were to tie the laces on their shoes. Surely unnecessary? – These athletes had been playing the game for years. Wooden’s point, was that for many things…

What Do You Notice?

‘Clarity begins with realizing what we do not notice—and don’t notice that we don’t notice’. Sir Alex Ferguson the legendary former coach of football club Manchester United was quite clear in his leadership philosophy and approach to coaching that the ability to notice what was going on, to…

Good or Bad? Your Choice

‘Attitude is a small thing that makes a big difference.’ Winston Churchill There is an old story about a little girl walking past a building site. As she walks by, she asks in turn 3-workmen what they are doing? The first replies that he is laying bricks. The second…