Secret 10 · Relations / Team Roles — Projects-Power-Leadership

Victory is the biggest risk.

Three lessons on Projects-Power-Leadership — the Project Charter that carries a project from business goals to handover, the power struggle a group passes through before the majority unites around a winner, and what a large group does with its fantasies once the leadership falters.

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A meeting room set out before a session: high-backed chairs in a wide ring on a stone floor, two flip charts covered in handwriting, and a pot of white flowers standing on the floor between them — The room before the group arrives. A ring has no head of the table.

The winning team and power struggle

You belong to a winner team when its members are deeply committed to one another’s growth.

People standing in loose clusters in a wide lobby before a seminar, some talking in pairs, others alone with a cup, seen at a distance

Secret 9 built the team. Secret 10 puts that team to work on something with a deadline, a budget, and a customer — a project. The Project Charter is the road it travels, from the business goals and the “big picture” scope at one end to customer satisfaction and TQM at the other.

But no group moves straight from potential to performance. It criticises, splits into subgroups, forms alliances and interest pacts — before the majority, sooner or later, unites around a winner. Secret 10 walks through both halves: the charter that carries the work, and the power struggle that carries the group.

“The Winner Team outperforms the others, and it achieves results that are well beyond the expectations of outsiders. It also serves as an excellent model and benchmark for potential and real teams. It is however rare.”
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