The heart of it all

At the heart of every business are people. Lots of them! Working as a team. Leading teams, making teams, restructuring old teams and shifting teams around. We all want to be the MVP of the team we are a part of. Are you one of the many that have found yourself looking across a conference room table at a bunch of your "team mates" waiting to figure out who is the real leader, who will get drunk on the first business trip and who will break the ice with the most inappropriate comment. The kind of comment that would make human resources give up hope. A slow and painful game of survivor unfolds as clicks are formed and alliances are created and tested. Some find themselves on the outside looking in. Some are right back in High School running for class clown or class president. Heaven forbid times get tough and the outcasts will be cast out and the "in" group will circle the wagons and protect each other. Never mind the real work that should be getting done. The politics and positioning take center stage and surviving becomes the number one goal. This situation is real and common. It will never work in football and it will never work on the long term for any company. Teamwork how do we navigate the traps and challenges? Seek and you will find the answers in your own motivations and personal faults. The