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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

Different tasks and different projects require teams to come together and break apart all the time. Remember Tuckman’s stages of group development ? While both of these examples are from an artificial environment, I have seen this play out in business projects time and time again. None of us can be successful by ourselves.

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