I was privileged to see Bob Dylan and Neil Young playing on the Great Oak Stage at Hyde Park in London this week. They are both great individual artists but the thing that struck me watching, particularly Neil Young, is that these performers are supported by some of the best backing musicians on the planet. That is what makes their performances.
The same is true at any level of professional life with the teams we all work in. Get a great team around a great leader and anything is possible – if not quite so musical. As the American author and management consultant Jim Collins said in his book Good to Great good leaders start not with “where” but with “who.” They start by getting the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats. See this article Leaders of great companies ask: First Who, Then What.
This short blog 10 Characteristics of High-Performing Teams suggests that Most members of high-performing teams report that it’s fun and satisfying to work on collaborative teams because they are asked to contribute at their highest potential and they learn a lot along the way.But you have to have the right leader who will allow this and a team that responds.
I also heard a great analogy about team leaders recently. If your team’s task is to pull a stone up a hill, the best leaders pulls with his team from the front providing support and direction – while the worst stand on the stone with a whip and a megaphone and just shout at their team!
At the same time the team members have to understand and contribute and enjoy and appreciate their tasks. As this blog The 7 Characteristics of a Great Team Player suggests Being an effective team member requires individuals to have the right frame of mind backed up by consistent actions. Effective and great team membership is characterized by how you think and feel about your role and the actions you take to support the team.
Here is a good Harvard Business Review article The Secrets of Great Teamwork which identifies some of the challenges and answers to effective teams in this fast moving digital age commenting Today’s teams are different from the teams of the past: They’re far more diverse, dispersed, digital, and dynamic (with frequent changes in membership).
I think it is all about working selflessly for each other. As the American president Harry S. Truman once said It is amazing what you can accomplish if you don’t not care who gets the credit.
And returning to music for the last word, or note, Britt Daniel the American singer and guitarist commented I love bands that can collaborate, and I feel like the Rolling Stones wouldn’t be nearly as great as they are if it wasn’t for them having a real group.
The same is true at any level of professional life with the teams we all work in. Get a great team around a great leader and anything is possible – if not quite so musical. As the American author and management consultant Jim Collins said in his book Good to Great good leaders start not with “where” but with “who.” They start by getting the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats. See this article Leaders of great companies ask: First Who, Then What.
This short blog 10 Characteristics of High-Performing Teams suggests that Most members of high-performing teams report that it’s fun and satisfying to work on collaborative teams because they are asked to contribute at their highest potential and they learn a lot along the way.But you have to have the right leader who will allow this and a team that responds.
I also heard a great analogy about team leaders recently. If your team’s task is to pull a stone up a hill, the best leaders pulls with his team from the front providing support and direction – while the worst stand on the stone with a whip and a megaphone and just shout at their team!
At the same time the team members have to understand and contribute and enjoy and appreciate their tasks. As this blog The 7 Characteristics of a Great Team Player suggests Being an effective team member requires individuals to have the right frame of mind backed up by consistent actions. Effective and great team membership is characterized by how you think and feel about your role and the actions you take to support the team.
Here is a good Harvard Business Review article The Secrets of Great Teamwork which identifies some of the challenges and answers to effective teams in this fast moving digital age commenting Today’s teams are different from the teams of the past: They’re far more diverse, dispersed, digital, and dynamic (with frequent changes in membership).
I think it is all about working selflessly for each other. As the American president Harry S. Truman once said It is amazing what you can accomplish if you don’t not care who gets the credit.
And returning to music for the last word, or note, Britt Daniel the American singer and guitarist commented I love bands that can collaborate, and I feel like the Rolling Stones wouldn’t be nearly as great as they are if it wasn’t for them having a real group.
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