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Building a Great Team
I've been very interested in what makes a great team for a long time. As a kid I spent a ton of time competing, playing baseball and basketball. I got pretty good, but as part of a team, my performance suffered as the team's performance suffered.
So why is it that we become part of a team, and then have a hard time performing within that team as we would on our own? This question has intrigued me since I was young. And I've spent a good portion of my adult life trying to figure it out.
What have I found out? 1. People enjoy being part of a team because it allows them the security of being insulated by others with the same general goals. They feel supported by likeminded people. But this security sometimes translates itself into laziness, people feel safe and protected within the fold of the team, thus they are opposed to taking risks that could jeopardize their safety. 2. Some people wait for others to take the initiative. Because of the pyramidal structure of teams those at the bottom can sometimes hide within the mass of people at their level. Waiting for orders to come down from above, this is pretty apparent in corporate situations where people are often ignored for years, hiding in a position where no one actually knows what they do. 3. Teams must be guided by unwavering principles of what the mission is, what the team and individuals on it stand for, and have a very simple but powerful credo that drives the team forward toward the lofty goals it has set. 4. Often teams get mired down in bureaucracy because of mid-level management's need to control the actions of those beneath them. I've seen time after time the work ethics and values of talented new folks get crushed by a manager's fear of someone replacing them. Building a team based on talent, and structuring that team to perform, is a lesson in really thinking about how the values and ethics that all team members share collectively are going to react to the tasks and goals of what the team is trying to accomplish.
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Great advice! :)
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