All teams wishing to succeed must address a very natural inclination toward laziness, or loafing; even the brilliant sixteenth century philosopher and essayist Michel de Montaigne admitted his natural tendency to be “indifferent and bovine”. This is a vice that the French rower Gerard d’Aboville (the first man to row across two oceans solo, so hardly a lazybones) described very well:
“It is the thousand and one little daily temptations that lie in wait for us all: to get out of bed five minutes later than usual; to stop one minute before the bell rings signalling the end of the working day; to pull a trifle less vigorously on the oar next time; even to stop shaving.”
We are, of course, frequently tempted to loaf when working on our own. But in group efforts, we are tempted many times over because we have the lux-
