It contains short articles on management, personnel, team building, financing, business assessment, international markets, productivity, and regulations. The work-team concept has become an accepted and integral part of conducting business today. Teams underachieve for two basic reasons. The first, and perhaps most important reason, is team composition . Teams that are forced together without prior planning and a thorough assessment of individual team member strengths and weaknesses succeed only by sheer luck.
Teams are a lot like puzzles.
In much the same way as a puzzle is composed of interlocking pieces that fit together, a team must comprise individual members who work closely together. Just as the border gives shape and direction to a puzzle, team members need to support one another to hold their team together. A team is not just a group of individuals who work at the same location or on the same project. A real team consists of people who may have unequal experience, talent, or education. The challenge, then, is for team members to share or develop a common vision and an equal commitment to working together.