set aside 10% of your team's time to do these unwanted jobs. Say yes to the bulk of them but explain that it will take a long time to complete the task. Ignore all complaints that these tasks are taking too long. If they complain to senior management then give senior management the choice, you either do your main task or you do these unwanted tasks - their choice.
While I understand what you're saying, I think the part maybe I didn't express well is that there isn't a 10% of the team time to give anymore. The items that our team was always most successful on now compete with all these other tasks and the team has more or less shifted into a very generalized and vague team without any specific goal, reason, or projects that best utilize our skills and interests.
The EFT here creeped in and more or less turned a team that always succeeded on the goals they were actually hired and trained to accomplish and now is being held responsible for the success/failure of so many other teams, including those that have nothing to do with any of our specialties. We lost members who went on to better things, and to this day I still am only happy for them that they were able to make that change when they did.
It's not about whether or not we _can_ accomplish the load, and that's not what the article is about. It's about others pushing their items they don't want to deal with onto others, and how much effort goes into that from the others instead of just doing their work, and how EFT is toxic once it becomes accepted for persons to engage in EFT.
