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How to Be Awesome at Your Job · 2026-11-12 · 43 min · 7,729 words

1196: The Hidden Habits That Makes Teams More Effective with Karina Mangu-Ward

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In many things, embracing a change, trying something new, we have to admit that we won't know until we try. And many things are easy to iterate and adapt and throw out if they're not working quite right. We have to trust our ability and build our adaptive capacity to steer if we're not getting it right. That's Karina Mango Ward. She's a partner at August, a consultancy that helps organizations transform the way they work to thrive in an uncertain world. Where she's had the privilege of working with some of the most impactful and complex organizations in the world to rethink their teaming habits and build cultures of experimentation, trust, and learning. Her book, Teams That Meet the Moment, Nine Practices for Unlocking Performance and Growth in Uncertain Times reveals the missing piece. Teams need to thrive and succeed. Still learn one? How to make it safe to try new ideas to

how to help your team navigate trade-offs and priorities, and three, how to free up a valuable meeting time. And if you want a quick summary right about the actual wisdom that Parina shares, I recommend you mosey over to awesome at your job.com and sign up for the free gold nugget email newsletter. I'm Pete McKitis. This is how to be awesome at your job, and now here's Karina. Karina, welcome! Thank you. Thank you for having me.

Well, I'm excited to talk about teams that meet the moment. Could you start us off by sharing One of your most surprising or counterintuitive discoveries you've made about teams with all your work. In this domain. One of the things that people get wrong about teams is they think it's all about superstar talent. People are Are obsessed.

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