More than 30 years ago, a Procter and Gamble manager named George O. Charrier noticed how successful teamwork arose from groups progressing through five predictable and identifiable stages – the "rungs" of Cog's Ladder. He wrote about them in an influential academic paper.
Charrier's theory has stood the test of time and is still used by team leaders from sports coaches to corporate managers, and even the U.S. naval and air force academies, to aid the understanding of group development.
The greatest value in Cog's Ladder is that it helps you to understand that your new, apparently dysfunctional team will not always behave like that. It also gives you a way to anticipate and manage the changes that your team will go through as it develops.
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