John Adair's 100 Greatest Ideas for Personal Success

Idea 63: Checklist – The three circles

• Have you been able to give specific examples from your own experience on how the three circles or areas of need – task, team and individual – interact with each other?
• Can you identify your natural bias:
  • You tend to put the task first, and are low on team and individual.
  • For you the team seems more important; you value happy relationships more than productivity or individual job satisfaction.
  • Individuals are supremely important to you; you always put the individual before the task or the team, for that matter. You tend to over-identify with the individual.
  • You can honestly say that you maintain a balance, ...