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Project Team Zen – Part II

This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series Project Team Composition

This is the second article in a series about Project Team Composition. You can find links to the related articles in the series index above.

In the last article I said there are a few things a good well-oiled constantly habitually repetetive winning teams need to have:

  • Complementary skills, and knowing and trusting the others will do their part
  • Approximately the same skill level
  • Striving for similar goals
  • Mutual respect for each other, and for each others skills

Lets start going through that list in more detail, and today I am more about football than music, just so you know.

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Excellence – Teamwork or flying solo?

Canadian Snowbirds over the San Francisco Bay: Double Diamond formation

Teamwork

Have you, in your life, been part of something truly excellent, created, at least partially, by you? Something that made you think afterwards: -”How on earth did I pull that off?” or -”I had no idea I was capable of that…“? Think carefully, as this doesn’t have to be work related, it can be your first-born child, the first time you won a major sports event or when you pulled off that solo during a live concert in front of 3000 people. Chances are you have had that feeling at some point.

Now, if you think back to that event, that thing (whatever it was, unless winning on the lottery): did you really pull it off all by yourself? Again, chances are you had help (particularly if you were thinking about your kids), or that you were part of a team that “made magic” just by working together, be it by parents, partners, team members, coaches or managers.

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