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Maybe take the opportunity and grow (qualitatively) your team with those challenges. In the end you're just as good as your team. So it's in your best interest to teach them everything you can offer.

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This goes both ways. If the team cannot grow or cannot match your skills, they will take you down with them.

maybe I misunderstand your point, but this doesn't sound like something a team player would say. Everyone can learn something and better. The better your team, the better your managing results will be. As easy as that.

If it's really that bad, then I wonder how someone ended up in such a place.

There are bad teams, departments, companies where people end up there for various reasons (great money, great new role, level and so on) and they might miss some context on why and how bad the situation is until they go there again for various reasons (they are hired as the new team lead so they haven’t selected the team members, they didn’t meet all the team when hiring, department has some weird team dynamics, team might be good but the rest of the department or company is incompetent, there is a problematic team member that made the previous lead leave, there is a problematic team lead with whom you need to collaborate and made the previous team lead leave and so on).

Any and more of these can make a person with good potential go down to their team/department level until they decide to just leave. So that’s what i am saying, it goes both ways for the team leader; great if the team/company is competent, not so great or even bad if the team/company is not.

that's a comprehensible explanation. Thanks for taking the time and hopefully things are going better in the future :)

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