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Calculated risk-taking practices
Significant achievement requires risk. Collective courage involves calculated risk-taking—risks that are proportionate to potential benefits, informed by analysis, and bounded. Develop team practices for evaluating and taking risks. When considering a bold action, explicitly assess: • What could go wrong? How likely are different outcomes? • What is the potential upside? • What is… An ongoing team scaffold (decision practice), run as needed, not as a one-off session.
Practical
- Time
- 5-90 min
- Group
- 3–20 · small-group
- Settings
- in-person, online
- Materials
- None beyond ordinary meeting/work settings
- Mechanisms
- life-embedding, behavioral-rehearsal, values-clarification
- Change scope
- state → skill · recurring-practice (As needed)
Instructions
- Where
- idg.thomasjordan.se/idg-team-scaffolds-webapp.html — Thomas Jordan's IDG Resource Library, open
- Availability
- Open online — published at the link, free to read
Source link checked 29 Aug 2026 — unchanged since we recorded it on 28 Aug 2026
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Origin
Thomas Jordan & Claude [AI] (IDG for Teams handbook — team scaffold) — IDG practice (idg.thomasjordan.se)
In this directory via Thomas Jordan's IDG Resource Library
Team leader role (Jordan): Model calculated risk-taking—take risks yourself while being transparent about your reasoning. Support team members who take informed risks, including when those risks do not pay off.
status: checked · added 2026-08-25