Comments on: Assigning Blame: Use With Caution http://www.maxpersuasion.com/assigning-blame/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=assigning-blame A school dedicated to Mastering the Art of Persuasion Sat, 28 Jan 2012 04:35:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Rintu http://www.maxpersuasion.com/assigning-blame/#comment-394 Rintu Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:45:21 +0000 http://blog.maxpersuasion.com/?p=382#comment-394 Hi Kenrick, Great post, thanks. It does remind me of a time when I was in the corportate world and I was being used to sort out dysfunctional teams (Easiest way to sort them out...stop calling them dysfunctional, but the company never really bought into the simple approach). I had a process when ever I took one of these teams over and a big part of it was about creating a common enemy. It could be the big boss, another department, customers, suppliers...didn't really matter so long as they were removed far enough away so they were intangible but close enough to demonise them. I could turn round poor performing teams in a couple of weeks starting with this process. I do agree though you need to use this approach with caution and probably doing a lot to increase the self esteem of the team so they don't need an enemy to perform. Thanks again for the post. Rintu Hi Kenrick,
Great post, thanks. It does remind me of a time when I was in the corportate world and I was being used to sort out dysfunctional teams (Easiest way to sort them out…stop calling them dysfunctional, but the company never really bought into the simple approach).

I had a process when ever I took one of these teams over and a big part of it was about creating a common enemy. It could be the big boss, another department, customers, suppliers…didn’t really matter so long as they were removed far enough away so they were intangible but close enough to demonise them. I could turn round poor performing teams in a couple of weeks starting with this process.

I do agree though you need to use this approach with caution and probably doing a lot to increase the self esteem of the team so they don’t need an enemy to perform.

Thanks again for the post.

Rintu

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