Design the Team Before Debugging the People
Diagnose team performance through enabling conditions before attributing issues to individual motivation.
Team behavior is often a mirror of team design. The conditions lens Hackman's conditions ask whether the team is real, has a compelling direction, has the right structure, has support from the surrounding system, and gets coaching when it will matter. These are not abstract categories; they shape the daily choices people can make. Why it prevents misdiagnosis If the team boundary is blurry, people do not know who owns the result. If the direction is weak, everything becomes locally rational. If the structure is poor, meetings become negotiation theater. If context is missing, even skilled people spend energy fighting…
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