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3 things that made me go Woah!
- According to research, the most important aspect of managing and leading
others is being a good coach. This means that helping people succeed has
more value than empowering your team, being a good communicator, or
having a clear vision for your team. Having technical skills and proving
oneself as an expert is actually the least important according to research.
- Professor Goodman recommended that we use texting and e-mails only to set
up a meeting and distribute material for that same meeting.
- The single-biggest mistake people make is assuming that going to a meeting
is enough to get the job done. Communicating what needs to be prepared and
actually preparing are essential for getting what’s done on the agenda.

3 memorable quotes
- “If I join a team, I need to be ready to set aside my ego for the greater good of
the team”
- Discussing what’s key to overcoming failure: “The two most important
qualities are brutal honesty and relentless optimism. It’s about the ability to
learn from failure and string together a small series of wins.”
- “If you have a biological system too diverse, it dies; if you have a biological
system too alike, it also dies. Healthy communities balance ties that bind and
diversity to thrive.”

We also discussed the differences between team, community, and group.
- Teams are usually goal-oriented, self-appointed, common good> individual
needs
- Communities consist of people who often have a commitment to each other;
you can end up together via circumstance (inevitable, geographical); can
share common values
- Groups are often used temporary problem solving, can be the balance
between community and teams
- Important!: There is no one correct definition for these terms; one key point
to understand is that we overuse the word team, which should refer to goal-
oriented collection of people working together