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I took on 2 teams.

I had formed, recruited and managed a very successful team for a year or so, we worked great together, like clockwork. Nothing is perfect but it's the tightest team I've ever worked on to date. Another team was constantly causing issues for us and other teams, they were a problem. They let the manager of that team go (unsurprisingly) and so I offered to take over that team while they found a full-time replacement.

My thought was to make things better for my team and others by putting this team on the right path but it wasn't to be. The team needed to have some people replaced, but I was hesitant to do so right away as I was learning about their domain. Overall this just took time away from my main team. I eventually got completely burned out and was very stressed. So much so that I eventually decided to go back to being an individual contributor. Looking back, my greatest accomplishment of my career thus far has been forming that first team and leading it, we did some amazing high impact things.

So I guess, morale of the story is to not take on too much. Or think that you can always replicate success with a different group of folks.