The Rules of the Boat: Stopping Toxic Behavior Before It Sinks Your Team

In our last solo episode, we met Debra—the talented but disruptive teammate who quietly eroded trust and derailed her team. If you missed that story, go back and listen first—it sets the stage for today’s conversation.

In this episode of The Resilience Lab, Rex Miller shares how managers and teams can prevent the next Debra situation by creating clarity around the behaviors they celebrate, tolerate, and cannot allow. Through real stories—from a school furniture distributor to a European team plagued by a “shit stirrer”—you’ll learn a simple but powerful framework called the Boat Model.

By the end, you’ll know how to reset your team’s rules of engagement, shift accountability from one manager to the whole group, and protect the trust that keeps your team moving forward.

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