Axiomempiricalv1
Team performance is primarily determined by conditions set
Team performance is primarily determined by pre-conditions rather than real-time management
Why This Is an Axiom
This is Hackman's '60/30/10 rule' — an empirical finding about what determines team effectiveness. It's a falsifiable claim about the relative importance of design versus management that cannot be derived from other principles. It justifies the focus on team architecture over facilitation.
Source Lessons
L-1601
Teams think collectively
A team is not just individuals — it has collective cognitive processes that can be designed and improved.
L-1620
Individual epistemic skills are the foundation of team cognition
A team can only think as well as its members allow. Individual epistemic development — the eighty phases of personal cognitive infrastructure you have built — is the foundation on which every team cognitive practice depends. Without skilled individual thinkers, no team architecture can compensate.