About Teams

I have read somewhere, that the accronym TEAM stands for Together Everyone Achieves More. Well I don't know but what I do know is that working in a team can be the most empowering and powerful way to achieve virtually anything. Find bellow some of my thoughts connected to working in a team.

• Team always achieves more than sum of the individual performances of its members. Or less. You pick.
• Well functioning team is a like a relationship, it takes lot of honesty, communication and will to survive to make it through the tough times.
• Any team has a collective responsibility for both its successess and failures. I know it is tempting to blame the team leader for the failures, but when the team succeeds you also celebrate together.
• Team needs to perform in the short-term as well as to build its capacity to do so in the long-term.
• Team is best when based on the strenghts of its members, to collectivelly tackle things no one can tackle alone.
• Team has a purpose that is of a higher importance than the individual interests of its members.
• Both best and worst teams alike, go through successes and challenges. However, for first, they represent an opportunity, for the second they come across as obstacles.
• Team is like an environment, if it stays clean depends a lot on what you do with it.
• The team fails only when its members give up on it.