Most teams have plenty of ideas of what’s going wrong and numerous suggestions for addressing them. When they focus too much on what others can do to remove these obstacles and ignore what they can do themselves, things rarely get better.
Few words in the corporate world are abused and misused more than “team.” Calling something a team doesn’t make it one.
Without a clear definition of what “high performance” means, it’s easy to defend describing many teams with that term. Isn’t the promise of high performance the reason we form teams? And if a team is already high-performing, they don’t need to get better, right?