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I'd like to announce a cycle of articles coming to Cubitoo Daily Blog starting tomorrow: The Toxic Team.
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Don't miss any new articles and instead receive them in your inbox as soon as they become available.
A series of articles focusing on the common problems caused by improperly managed teams.
Learn how to detect toxic situations, deal with them, and her your team with this curated topic of articles.
The Toxic Team is a series of articles focusing on the common problems caused by improperly managed teams. Learn how to detect toxic situations, deal with them, and heal your team with this curated topic of articles.
I'd like to announce a cycle of articles coming to Cubitoo Daily Blog starting tomorrow: The Toxic Team.
Gaslighting is a form of psychological manipulation that seeks to sow seeds of doubt in a targeted individual or in members of a targeted group, making them question their own memory, perception, and sanity. Using persistent denial, misdirection, contradiction, and lying, it attempts to destabilize the victim and delegitimize the victim's belief. (source)
Ever had your idea shot down, for no apparent reason? Some people are very fast to dismiss ideas of other people, while being convinced their own are the best.
Ever worked with this one person, who is undoubtedly brilliant, but behaves like... asshole?
The purpose of a team is to collaborate in order to achieve a mutual goal, like creating, selling, or managing something. The sense of camaraderie and mutual support is very important for any team, as it builds trust, and results in a positive-sum of every teammate talents.
Remember that simple discussion that ended up a massive fight? Just because that one person thrown a tantrum, making it clear it will either be their way, or they will make everyone regret? That's the Terminator approach.
Flat hierarchy is a team setup, in which there are no, or very few management levels between entry level employees and the management. It's a beloved organization in small companies and start-ups, making everything run leaner, and more efficient.
A clique is a small close-knit group of people who do not readily allow others to join them. Having one in your team is an anti-thesis of collaboration, since not belonging to the clique can invite many toxic behaviors.
As teams grow, a toxic situation can happen: old, "advanced", members of the team may start treating the new, "newbie", colleagues in a condescending way.
"I'm just passionate!" is a very common excuse of a toxic behavior known as the Brilliant Asshole.