Choosing the Right Way to Motivate Your Team
A few years back, I had two engineering teams stalled on the same platform migration. On paper, both wanted the same outcome - get off the legacy system before it started costing us reliability. But one team was arguing about sequencing, and the other was quietly convinced the whole migration was the wrong call to begin with. I made the mistake most leaders make in that moment: I gave both rooms the same pep talk. It worked for one team. It did nothing for the other. That sent me back to a framework I'd come across years earlier - Clayton…
