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Teams

Good teams succeed not because of innate qualities of team members, but because of how they treat one another. Put differently, the most successful teams have norms that cause everyone to mesh particularly well.

Team Size

Research shows that the optimum team size is five (actual research is 4.6). Team effectiveness and cohesiveness drop at six. Teams tend to be overstaffed, often because managers don't want to leave anyone out.

Teams

Great teams have multiple leaders, multiple voices. 

Teams

The culture of your team will only be as strong as your relationships and commitment to one another.

Teams

Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people. 

Team Leadership

The best leadership your team can have is a combination of your strengths with theirs.  You make up for one another's weaknesses. 

Accountability

Team members in high-performance teams are accountable to each other, not just the boss. 

Teams

Great teams have talent, leadership, attitude, and unity of purpose.  

Developing People

The more of a head start your organization gets in developing people individually and as teams, the more difficult it will be for competitors to ever catch up to you.

Teams

You don't select a team, you select a group of people and then work together to develop into a team.  Teams evolve.