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The Product Model #273 - Common Objections To Empowering Teams
This Week’s Updates: Vague Communications, Total Impact Matrix, Trust In AI, Design Dialects, Beyond Vibe Coding and more...
Rory Madden
December 30, 2025
Common Objections To Empowering Teams (And How To Rebut Them)
I know first-hand the pushback that you get when you suggest making changes to how teams work. Empowering teams is difficult because it changes the process of how teams work, how people are upskilled, how you avoid duplicating work, how you can be confident that teams are working efficiently and effectively and more.
In this week’s article, I go into the most common objections and how you can alleviate people's concerns.
Just in time for New Year's resolutions as well.
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This Week’s Updates
Enabling the Team
Common Objections To Empowering Teams (And How To Rebut Them) by Rory Madden
Empowered cross-functional teams challenge traditional ways of working, but they ultimately lead to higher efficiency, better quality, and faster decision-making.
How Vague UX Communication Breeds Misalignment by Anamol Rajbhandari, Gaayathri Sankar, Huda Najm Alabbas
Soft, fuzzy UX phrases hide real disagreements until late in delivery. Turning them into shared definitions and concrete outcomes keeps teams aligned and reduces rework.