That answer is the constitution your team already runs on, ratified by default and written by whoever last got away with something. There is a single page here for writing it on purpose instead.
Free, and it takes an hour.
Valladolid · Every team already runs on a constitution nobody wrote down, and the method for writing it on purpose needs a page and an hour rather than a consultant.
Valladolid · The fiestas look like a city letting go of itself and are very nearly the opposite: hundreds of acts across departments that do not report to each other, holding because it is written down rather than because everyone means well.
Comillas · A team that knows what it is for can stop without falling apart, and stopping is only dangerous when nothing has been written down.
Valladolid · Teams are still rewarded for how hard they appear to be working, and that habit outlives every stated commitment to judging results instead.
Valladolid · The commitments that actually govern a leadership team are the ones never said out loud, which is exactly why they survive every restructure and why nobody can be held to them.
Valladolid · In November 2002 Eva and I started a company in the bodega underneath our house, and the why behind it turned up years later, read backwards out of the work. This time it came first, and it is written down.