The concepts of teamwork and teams get stale pretty quickly, if for no
other reason than we overuse them as a panacea for seemingly every issue
that pops up. Yet working together does make life easier. Here is
another
take on how to work with others – complete with movie references…
So what do you do if you don’t like your teammates? How about the person
who sits next to you? Your boss? Your client? (Imagine that!) Yourself?
A follow up to last week and the notion of the role of the individual in creating teams…read on…
Teamwork and team play and any combination or even stand alone usage of the T word has definitely become hackneyed in our world.
We have become cynically jaded, I suspect, because so often a “leader” dictates the usage of the phrase – if you will – as opposed to being organically developed by the group in question.
You know the scenario – almost Animal Farm like – all team members are equal but some team members are more equal than others – not a good start and certainly not consistent with the idea of the strength of the team being each individual member.
