Ground-Breaking Discovery: The I in Team

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Ground-Breaking Discovery: The I in Team

We all know the saying: “There is no I in team!”

And we might come up with some of these smart-ass answers:

• But there’s M an E
• And there’s no U
• But there’s an U in murder
• There ain’t no we either
• but there is an I in win

The I is hidden in the A – like a Ninja

There it is: The i in TEAM.

So why do we even cover this topic you might wonder? It’s about Teamwork. If you are online and reading this article, chances are you profited from someone’s advice or knowledge in the past and you will continue to do so in the present and future.

There are many ways to explain teamwork with the help of models. If this was primarily a technology blog, I might explain teamwork with the help of a Peer-to-Peer Network.

Due to the nature of this blog, I will explain some facets of teamwork with the model of sport teams. We will discover how a team will profit by individuals and how it will suffer.

We might discover that a tight team will have it’s own characteristics as it was an individual on its own.

We will use these discoveries to your advantage and to the advantage of your team. You have already multiple teams – but you might not be aware of it at all times. I will limit the discoveries I’ve made in the past to what’s helpful to you. Some explanations might make no sense to you at this point. But that’s totally okay. Your subconscious mind will do the work for you.

Teamwork series

Because this is such a huge topic, one blog post won’t do it. In fact this will just be an introductionary post and start of a series of articles about Teamwork.

There’s no I in team, but there are 5 in ‘individual brilliance’

Talking about individual brilliance and sports teams, there should always come one name to mind: Michael Jordan.

Michael Air Jordan was the Star Player for the Chicago Bulls and led the team to six NBA Championships in the 1990s. While it is safe to say, that without His Airness, the Bulls wouldn’t be nearly as successful as they had been, the Chicago Bulls’ role players like Scottie Pippen and Horrace Grant made the two three-peats possible.

But was it those three individuals or the combined strength of all the teammates that made success possible?

“There are plenty of teams in every sport that have great players and will never win titles,” explained Jordan in an interview. Most times, these players aren’t willing to sacrifice for the greater good of the team. The funny thing is, in the end, their unwillingness to sacrifice only makes individual goals more difficult to achieve.”

They had a common goal, a team goal. Michael Jordan even said, that he didn’t have an individual goal. It was just this one goal – the goal of the team, to win the title.

And they did.

We’ll go into the science of teamwork and how you can use it to find success in the next article of this series.

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