You need to make sure your team is mission-driven. To achieve this, you must make sure that everybody in the team, including yourself, is 100% clear on the mission from the very start.

Remember the "team deck" concept and the Project Initiation Document (PID) that we discussed back in Chapter 2, What Are the Key Skills I need?. Your unwavering mission statement and problem statement need to be proudly and prominently.

In the course of achieving your mission, it's also worth remembering that you need to encourage your team to try new and novel things. One of the primary ways that you can establish an area for this is by creating a safe environment that allows them to experiment, but more importantly, facilitate any failures by enabling them to try again. Effectively, you need to harness their creativity to solve complex problems...