Choose Results Over Status
The most important principle that a team leader must embrace is a desire to produce results. As obvious as this sounds, it is not universally practiced by the highest-ranking executives of larger teams. Many team leaders put something ahead of results on their list of priorities, and it represents the most dangerous of all the temptations: the desire to protect the status of their careers.
Choose Accountability Over Popularity
Even team leaders who resist the temptation to overfocus on protecting their status sometimes fail. Why? Because they do not hold their direct reports accountable for delivering on the commitments that drive results. This happens because they succumb to a different temptation: the desire to be popular.
Know your role!
What’s my role? Team Executive Officer
The challenges of being an executive officer (XO) in charge of the overall management of special operation teams is demanding and sometimes unclear. What role are you suppose to play? What am I doing to better the team? What am I doing that is hurting the team? While these questions may seem ambiguous, there is a clear and concise way to approach your role.
Choose Clarity Over Certainty
Even team leaders who resist the temptations to protect their status and to be popular with their direct reports sometimes fail. Why? Because even if they are willing to hold their direct reports accountable, they are often reluctant to do so because they don’t think it’s fair. That’s because they haven’t made it clear what those direct reports are accountable for doing. Why don’t they make these things clear? Because they have given in to yet another temptation: the need to make “correct” decisions, to achieve certainty.
Choose Conflict Over Harmony
Even Team Leaders who resist the temptation to protect their status, to be popular with their direct reports, and to make correct decisions sometimes fail because they don’t feel comfortable with the decisions they make. That’s because they haven’t benefited from the best sources of information that are always available to them: their direct reports. Why not? Because they give in to the next temptation: the desire for harmony.
Choose Trust Over Invulnerability
Even Team Leaders who resist the temptation to protect their status, to be popular with their direct reports, to make correct decisions, and to create harmony sometimes fail. Why? Because even though they are willing to cultivate productive conflict, their people may not be willing to do so. Why not? Because the Team Leaders gives in to the final temptation: the desire for invulnerability.
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