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Even casual NBA fans can't miss the team harmony of the San Antonio Spurs; challengers to the throne, staring down a star-laden Miami Heat roster. If only we could transfer that cohesiveness, the bravado and resolve of the Spurs' players and coaches.
Why do athletic teams and their players inspire people and companies so often? Is it because sports franchises are small enough to be real teams?
Every day some company seminar attempts to emulate sports dynamics; pointing to teams everyone knows from collegiate to the professional ranks. Alas big companies and big governments try to be teams, but they never can be...only in the most ephemeral terms.
In spite of their wishful thinking, many corporate entities lack a true core team. If you doubt this contention, ask yourself:
- Do we work together almost daily on "the plan?"
- Are we constantly aware of our own performance?
- Are we in tune with our own personal morale?
If it can't do these things with relentless consistency then wish as one might, it can't be a real team, existing only as a pipe dream of the HR department.
A few postulates for team-making:
- Great team leaders take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.
- Walt Disney said, "If you can dream it you can do it." Remember...this whole thing was started by a mouse."
- It's a rough road that leads a team to the heights of greatness.
- Dynasties demand determination. In sports that means you return to a grinding workaday existence very day, even after winning a championship.
Robert Louis Stevenson said it all. "To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end in life."
What kind of team are you building?
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