Summary of Exploring non-coercive team management with Kahlil Corazo

00:00:00 - 00:25:00

Kahlil Corazo discusses non-coercive team management and how it can help achieve harmony and productivity within a team. He also notes that this approach can have costs for the team member undergoing the process, as well as for the company as a whole.

• 00:00:00 Kahlil Corazo discusses the concepts of non-coercive team management and how it can help achieve harmony and productivity within a team. He also notes that this approach can have costs for the team member undergoing the process, as well as for the company as a whole.
• 00:05:00 In the video, Kahlil Corazo discusses the concept of non-coercive team management. He points out that rewarding and punishing employees as a way to motivate them is part of the coercive frame, and that this type of management is more obvious with punishment but even with reward what you're dealing with is a separation of what the person is trying to do and wants to do from what you from the concept that you are creating incentives for them. Corazo discusses the importance of understanding the nature of incentives, and the importance of providing security for employees so that they can learn and grow.
• 00:10:00 The speaker discusses the difficulty of connecting individual work impacts to team success, and offers some suggestions for overcoming this difficulty. He suggests using service delivery as a measure of success, and connecting individual work impacts to that success.
• 00:15:00 Kahlil Corazo explores non-coercive team management, discussing how this type of leadership is not new and has been attempted by people for all of history. He poses the question of what purpose leadership should serve, and suggests that leading towards an objective project or product is a more fundamental approach.
• 00:20:00 The book "A foundational explanation of human behavior: how to get beyond observed behavior to the why of what we do" is about applying perceptual control theory to management within a team. It is a good application of PCT, and if the book is well written or well considered, it should be relevant to the question of how to manage a team.
• 00:25:00 Kahlil Corazo discusses the difference between order command and mission command, and how order command comes from on high and mission command comes from the team itself. He talks about how the PCT model suggests that this type of leadership is closer to how the brain works. He also recommends reading an article by Itai Nagam about different leadership models. Finally, he talks about how starting a team is a powerful opportunity, and how he wants to do it right.