Even with experts

Doing difficult things is a team sport.

With experts in the room, it’s easy for each of them to rely on their expertise.

Your belief: they know what they’re doing.

Their belief: I’ll do my job well, as well as I can, there’s nothing else for me to do.

This belief system works as long as everything goes well. When things don’t go well, all those individuals look around to work out who didn’t do their bit. And in times like that the culprit probably isn’t one of the experts or their expertise, it’s all the gaps between them.

Good outcomes absolutely involves people who know what they’re doing. But it also involves people who know where they fit, who understand their contribution to the whole, who work to make the hand-offs easier, and who know how to work as part of the whole.

Skippy strategy: Even with experts, hire team players.

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