| IMHE (in my humble experience), TL;DR: When you invest in shared respect & people know each other, it's fine & probably important! to get more thin lipped during a crisis in order to get to a solution. No need to be impolite though, just focused. When you invest in relationships with your coworkers, in times of crisis it's fine to "cut to the chase" and focus on high priority tasks, and sometimes naturally someone with expertise takes the lead and the other team members can fall into "support roles" and help them get their work done. With our team it is a kind of "enhanced focus tunnel" where the team helps someone to debug a system or find a solution, while sometimes suggesting changes of strategy, holes in a theory or overlooked avenues of exploration. But at the same time the "leader" can follow his instincts and will generally be respected for his approach, even if he drops some suggestions, and also be left alone by others with other tasks until the crisis is averted or can be deprioritised. If there's only ever crisis mode at work, that's not good, and will not lead to good outcomes in the long run. Then it's important to give - to take - for oneself and others time to breathe, to relax, to brainstorm, to draw out the current situation, and to find strategies out of the permanent crisis mode. Unless you like the permanent adrenaline, but I don't think good systems are created and maintained that way. |