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#4: Right People, Right Seats, No Exceptions
The last entry to The Team Room talked about the Pareto Principle – the idea that 80% of outcomes come from just 20% of inputs. In the context of small teams, it’s the terrifying concept that just...
#3: The Pareto Principle – A Small Team’s Worst Nightmare
In The Team Room Blog #2, we talked about George A. Miller and his “Magical Number Seven” concept. It is valuable to tie that concept with a tangentially related theory from a gentleman named...
#2: What Is a Small Team?
By Dan Bradley:
Trying to retain more than nine bits of information at once led not only to poor retention of further information but the inability to recall previously retained pieces of information.
It stands to reason that an ideal size for a small team, then, would be between 5 and 9 people. Anything bigger than that is simply too large to effectively track, manage, and lead.
Workplace of the future… in touch, but out of touch?
By: Tom Lokar
Despite all of the encroachment, overlap, and intertwining of work and personal life, we feel more disconnected than ever. In a recent Cigna study, 61% of Americans reported feeling lonely—and that was before the pandemic. More Zoom calls are hardly the answer, with video calls consistently cited as a source of anxiety, fatigue, and higher cognitive load as we try to translate the non-verbal cues of 15 people simultaneously.
#1: Step Into The Team Room
By: Dan Bradley
Small teams – that’s the focus. Why? Because frankly, small teams are the most important piece of any organization. Whether you’re talking about a Division-level military command, a 25,000-person organization, or a 30-person small business, your mission success or failure hinges on the effectiveness of the small teams that comprise your organization. They are the foundation upon which everything else rests.
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