That means that there are as many I's in TEAM as their are members of the team. In a team of five people, we have the chance of finding up to five individual superstars who could each break ahead of the pack in terms of learning and development. They could each become leaders who figure out how to drive productivity off the charts, and raise the standard of living of every individual in the organization while discovering the next golden goose of prosperity. I know this isn't the way the world typically works. Ask Bill Gates at Microsoft, or Mr. Hewlett and Mr. Packard.
Organizations evolve one person at a time.
We have to discover the really talented I's and allow them to run full-speed, before they run out the door. To achieve any semblance of control, we have to adapt the hierarchy of prosperity to match the rhythm of chaos. With the power of innovation that flows from individual freedom, we can rise from survival to prosperity. Learning the Steps We can begin to transform the hierarchy of prosperity into a cyclical process by simply placing the steps around the circle. The movement in the model has to represent feeding forward and feeding back, the same movement as the natural, wave-like evolution caused by chaos in the environment.