The document discusses how habits can impact teams and strategies. It notes that culture and habits can outweigh strategies, and that individual mindsets are less important than shared team habits. It identifies three team habits that can be problematic: a lack of psychological safety that prevents sharing of ideas; not allocating time to identify opportunities for improvement; and overreliance on metrics that creates confirmation bias without processes to address blind spots. The conclusion is that habits, both individually and collectively, are the primary determinants of outcomes.

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YOUR
HELLO.
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WHAT IS A CHANGE
YOU WANT TO SEE?
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CULTURE EATS STRATEGY
FOR BREAKFAST
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HABITS EAT STRATEGY
FOR BREAKFAST
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“Whenever there is a gap
between your habits and
your goals, your habits will
always win.”
- James Clear
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TEAM HABITS TRUMP
INDIVIDUAL MINDSET
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• No Psychological Safety – The team is not willing to share new
ideas, challenge existing processes, or hold each other accounable.
• No Time to Invest – The team is not clear on their areas of
focus. They are so busy executing that they have no time to identify
opportunities to remove waste and avoid non-value initiatives.
• No Plan to Fight Bias - The team is so focussed on proving that
they are right that they over-rely on vanity metrics and have no
process to identify blindspots and confirmation bias.
THREE TEAM HABITS
THAT STAND IN YOUR WAY
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© Kate Ter Haar
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HABITS ARE
NOT THE MAIN THING
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HABITS ARE
THE ONLY THING
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THIS IS JUST
THE BEGINNING
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