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3 Ways Leaders Accidentally Undermine Their Teams’ Creativity

Harvard Business Review

If your team is in the midst of solving a problem or generating a new product or project idea, you might be killing their creativity without even trying. The long-standing Tuckman model of group development emphasizes that new teams go through three phases – forming, storming, and norming. Spending too much time on brainstorming.

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The step teams forget

Surviving Leadership

Remember Tuckman’s stages of group development ? It shows in the final product. None of us can be successful by ourselves. We rely on the expertise, time and effort of those around us. Different tasks and different projects require teams to come together and break apart all the time.

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