Is stress beneficial to the team?
This is a rather interesting question, one that I have taken opposing views over the years. As a humanist, I would have said stress in any shape or form was bad for people and the job of managers would have been to keep this to a minimum. Minimum may imply that we can’t eliminate it altogether but as managers and leaders would we purposefully apply stress to individuals and teams? At that time in my career, I did feel that…