High performing teams understand that there is something mutual, something that has an interdependent meaning that is difficult to describe, something life-enhancing about being in a team.
I can't bear the slogans that abound about teams and within teams 'winners never quit, quitters never win'...'there is no 'I' in 'team' (by the way there is a 'me' in 'team' if you look carefully) 'no pain, no gain'. These redundant slogans that have no meaning at all when scrutinised.
Humans are complex, the dynamics of teams are complex, and these slogans come from a world similar to that of the worst business consultants who think that performance can be maximised by a slogan or a mnemonic. Go and run your slogan 'up a blue sky flagpole' and 'park it' 'outside the box' before you 'push the envelope' and then 'shoot the puppy'.
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