Editorial
Teamwork
1: Form teams to solve real work issues and Chain Manager with a background in the US be the most important quality of all.
improve real work processes military, supports this: “It all boils down to
2: Hold departmental meetings to review executive vision and leadership. The boss who
projects and progress wants to hire people to run the show, but doesn’t Some quotes on teamwork and
3: Build fun and shared experiences into the allow them to make decisions and second leadership from the famous and the
organization’s agenda guesses every decision when they do allow you not so famous:
4: Use icebreakers and time-limited fun team- to make them, doesn’t really want to let go of President Harry S. Truman:
building exercises the reins. The company will never grow beyond “It’s possible to achieve almost
5: Celebrate group successes publicly what it is today and it will never get more anything as long as you are not
efficient. If you worried about who gets the credit.”
hire the right Lee Iococca, US industrialist:
“Successful teams will improve any number of different
people, give “The speed of the boss is the speed of
them direction, the team.”
facets of the task in hand, such as creativity, efficiency and
the tools to do Stephen Covey, from The Eighth Habit:
morale. In business terms this translates into increased
the job and let “Leadership is communicating to
them go do it people their worth and potential so
commercial success; happier staff, happier clients or
[then] you will clearly that they come to see it in
customers and, ultimately, increased profitability.”
be amazed at themselves.”
how far they Colin Powell, former General and US
will take you.” Secretary of state:
“The day soldiers stop bringing you
The key figure in all of Susan Heathfield’s Hall goes on to specify four key areas that their problems is the day you have
tips above appears time and again in speaking business leaders are regularly missing: stopped leading them. They have
with executives about teamwork: The leader. In 1: Lack of clear communication of a business either lost confidence that you can
almost all examples, and this will resound very plan to the organization help them or concluded that you do
strongly with MBA graduates: the leader of the 2: Lack of understanding of what a good not care. either case is a failure of
team is ultimately responsible for that team’s employee is leadership.”
success. The leader must be part of the team; 3: Lack of ability to set an expectation and hold Mitchell Caplan, CEO, E*Trade
driving it and providing direction, yet retaining people to it Group Inc:
a distance from the team in order to evaluate it, 4: Lack of understanding of where cost is “To succeed as a team is to hold all of
identify its problems and steer it towards its goal the members accountable for their
if it strays off target. For MBA graduates who spend so much of expertise.”
This ambiguous role, as so many have their courses in teams and learning to be Michael Winner, British film director:
learned, can be extremely difficult and most leaders, this advice is essential. The balance is “a team effort is a lot of people doing
MBAs spend a great deal of their time picking extremely delicate, yet spending as much time what I say.”
up those skills. Steven Hall, a senior Supply as possible learning how to maintain it could
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