A team can absorb the natural peaks and lulls that accompany high performance far better than an individual can.
If you need everybody to be operating at 100% week on week in order to hit your deliverables then you have over promised and introduced an incredible amount of risk into your projects.
As a manager, if you care about the productivity and general well being of your team then you will be promising a max of around 70% team effort. Managing the expectations of other teams and departments is part of being a decent manager.
Spend two weeks sharpening the ax and then another cutting down the tree? No, the average company would rather you spend six, or even twelve, weeks chopping away with your blunt ax.
If you need everybody to be operating at 100% week on week in order to hit your deliverables then you have over promised and introduced an incredible amount of risk into your projects.
As a manager, if you care about the productivity and general well being of your team then you will be promising a max of around 70% team effort. Managing the expectations of other teams and departments is part of being a decent manager.
Spend two weeks sharpening the ax and then another cutting down the tree? No, the average company would rather you spend six, or even twelve, weeks chopping away with your blunt ax.