Accountability - owning mistakes | Aligned to organization's goals |
Aligned to organization's values | Bias for Action - aggressively moving things forward |
Brave communication - no fear of criticism | Candor & honesty |
Challenging assumptions | Comradery |
Constructive criticism - designed to help not shoot down | Decision making - timely and reasonable |
Dedication | Defeat of groupthink |
Defensive pessimism - planning for how things might go wrong | Delivering results each month |
Effective communications | Efficient meetings |
Efficient planning | Efficient structure / clear roles |
Efficient use of resources | Embrace of change |
Engaged team members | Engaged with customers / stakeholders |
Entrepreneurial spirit | Executive communication |
Feedback - correcting problems early and often | Handling criticism |
Hands-on - everyone is willing to delve into problems | High standards of work |
Incentives are working | Industry relationships / connections |
Issue clearing | Lightweight processes |
Long term plan | Marketing the value of team to the organization |
Mature processes | Meeting commitments to each other |
Meeting commitments to stakeholders | Members are credible / keep promises |
Open | Optimization - measuring and improving |
Organized | Ownership - problems are owned by everyone on team |
Politeness is the norm | Pragmatic |
Problem solving - addressing root cause of problems | Processes are measured and improved |
Productive office environment | Productive systems / technologies |
Productive team members | Productive work from home processes / tools |
Promotions / recognition based on potential and results | Realism - facing weaknesses and the strengths of competitors |
Respectful environment | Risk management |
Room for creativity - aggressive pursuit of non-obvious ideas of value | Sense of purpose - what we do is important |
Sense of urgency - respect for time | Sense of values / ethics |
Stakeholder relationships | Supporting each other |
Transparent | Work ethic |
Work quality | Work throughput |