There are many ingredients that go into a smoothly functioning team – hiring, performance management, incentive structures, clear goal setting, streamlined processes, and more. But in the broadest sense I believe that there are two fundamental activities, one fast and one slow, that are essential to a well-functioning team and that anyone can put into place immediately.

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Two fundamental strategies for building high-performing teams: systematically improving your weakest team to raise the organizational baseline (slow approach), and empowering your most competent people to lead critical projects regardless of hierarchy (fast approach). The slow method prevents organizational degradation by continuously debugging underperforming teams one at a time. The fast method leverages top performers as singular leaders on complex projects, which works better than committee-style leadership and delivers immediate results despite potential political friction.

Leveling Up Teams Fast and Slow

Leveling up slowly: Teams never go backwards