How To Have Your Team’s Back — Leadership Lessons from “Ted Lasso”

John Hartley
6 min readAug 18, 2021

One of the quickest ways to lose the trust of a team is to abandon their values and refuse to back them in tough situations. It seems like common sense, but let’s look at how to go about supporting your team even when things go south. We’ll do so again through the lens of “Ted Lasso.”

The team, taping over their Dubai Air logo.

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John Hartley

Engineering leader with a passion for building and growing teams. Writing about leadership and management in the tech industry. Director of Eng @ Curology