Have fun.
Do good work.
Take care of the people who work for you. The Team comes first.
Take care of the client.
Take care of the people you work for. Rules 3 and 4 will do most of the work on rule 5.
It is the team's obligation to challenge its leader. You won't get smacked down, you'll get MORE respect. However, do it appropriately. In private.
Once the team lead has made up his mind, even if a team member disagreed before, it is now his/her responsibility to push that decision to the outside world as though it was his or her own.
THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS A BAD TEAM, ONLY BAD TEAM LEADERS! If the team is bad, it's still the leader's responsibility to make it good.
It is the team leader's job to insulate the team from the outside, so that they can do their jobs.
Don't ever say that's not my job.
It is a core component of every leader's job on this team to pass their knowledge on to others in the team. So pass it on…
It is a team leader's job to push power and loyalty down, not up.
See rule 1.
