Gone Fishin' Over the summer, I finally started using the new fishing rod my wife purchased me as a Christmas gift. I’m not a skilled angler, and I’ll say honestly that the ratio of lost lures to caught fish is less than ideal. It’s not uncommon to feel my hook snag...
“BREAK BREAK – be advised – words mean things.” That was the interruption I received from my Joint Terminal Attack Control Instructor during the early stages of my training as a young Lieutenant. It came across my primary communication channel abruptly and...
In my first year after separating from the Air Force Special Warfare community and entering the private sector, I’ve encountered many misperceptions about what happens in the military’s elite small teams. Some military misperceptions are kind of funny – over a lunch...
In The Team Room Blog #4, I wrote about the two-pronged challenge of attracting the “Right People” to your team, then putting them in the “Right Seat” where they can make the most significant positive impact. One of our readers reached out to me via LinkedIn and left...
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 one or two employees drive the vast majority of your team’s...
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 Vilfredo Pareto. Vilfredo Pareto is known as one of the foremost economic...
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.
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.
We’d love to learn more about you, your team, and your challenges.
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