When Teams Fall into "The Enemy is Out There"

“The problem isn’t us, it’s them.”
Sound familiar? Teams often slip into what Peter Senge calls “The Enemy is Out There”—that sneaky mindset where blame gets pushed outward instead of clarity being built inward. In this episode, I’ll call out the phrases that signal when a team is falling into this trap, why it happens more often than we’d like to admit, and how leaders can respond in ways that shift the conversation back to ownership, clarity, and growth.

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