Chapter 22. Making your team manage their own work
by Lior Friedman
I was reading the previous note in this book (at the time, it didn’t include Roy’s analysis), and it got me thinking. It took me a while to understand why I felt that it isn’t quite right. And then it hit me: the game of the team lead choosing who does what isn’t worth playing. It’s better to avoid the problem to begin with, and the best way to do this is to let the team decide who does what.
If you want to become a great team leader, you need to stop being the team task dispatcher. Normally, a group of people will do a better job at this than a single person. Your job as the team leader is to allow this; make your team self-manage.
If your team isn’t there yet, it’s a good ...
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