Hinder, Not Help

Over the next couple of days, despite Jason’s words of collaboration, he continues to challenge everything you do, as well as everything the team suggests. Jason’s active resistance, combined with the delay from postponing the project retrospective, has resulted in severe consequences for your five-day schedule.

By the end of the week, the team’s exhausted from the constant conflict and resistance. There are daily murmurings of team members looking for new jobs when—not if—their project gets outsourced.

You realize too late that you could have done things differently. Rewind back to Tuesday’s project retrospective. Judging from your one-on-one conversations with the individual team members beforehand, it’s likely the majority ...

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