Learned helplessness is the quiet killer
The most dangerous belief on a team is that effort won't move the score. Robbins names it learned helplessness: the conviction, built from a run of efforts that went nowhere, that nothing you do will change the outcome. Once it sets in, people stop trying — not because they're lazy, but because they've concluded trying is pointless. You can spot it. The shrug in the meeting. The "we've tried that." The good idea that nobody bothers to push because last time the good idea died in committee. A garden looks the same for a while after someone stops watering it. ...