“an unhealthy bunker type mentality begins to emerge with the team seeing themselves as heroes and heroines struggling against great odds and any team members who express doubt about the project are treated as outcasts or negative people. It is important to note that the Project is close to failure by this stage”.
I’ve been in such a Project which ended up failing, despite being led by an Harvard MBA from an expensive external consulting firm.
Healthy and honest communication to interested stakeholders, facing reality and constructively dealing with the issues and criticism ‘head-on’, and making key and sometimes painful structural changes is the only way to work through to a successful outcome.
The problem is, that when you are part of a hard working Team, moving in the one direction, and used to working a particular way over a period of time - it sometimes takes unwelcome criticism from unlikely sources to bring threats and weaknesses to our attention.
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