Abstract
Inheriting an existing team is sort of like being a dentist with a patient who hasn’t been to see a dentist for about twenty years, and various teeth are starting to hurt. You’re going to have to do three things:
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A detailed inspection and X-ray. Figure out where the problems are: what teeth are solid; what teeth need repairs, and which teeth just need to be pulled out and replaced.
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A lot of drilling to remove rotted areas.
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Fillings and porcelain inlays to fill in the big gaps left by all the drilling.
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(2007). Fixing Suboptimal Teams. In: Smart and Gets Things Done. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0254-7_7
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