There is no I in team

I disagree.

Let’s be honest. There are only I’s in team. It’s a group of unique people, isn’t it?

The 21st Century corporate concept of a team of people working together to create something profitable has not managed to do what it may take committed yogis several incarnations to achieve – the defeat of the ego.

Once we’re honest about this, we can get to work on creating a brilliant and cohesive group, committed to success and to each other. And I can get to work on bringing the best “I” that I can into the group. Whether that group is family, work, community or sports based.

Let’s respect the “I”s and their different personalities and personal agendas, let’s let the “I”s discover and create very good reasons to bring their whole selves to the group, let’s involve the “I”s so that they are a part of shaping the group and its aims and the way it works and the plan of action to achieve success – let’s let the “I”s co-own it.

If we fail to do that, we may find that there really are no “I”s in our team –and then there can be no “we” in there either.

Over to you…

Jim.