Now, I tell you, that is truly beautiful indeed. When I think of all the dysfunctional groups running around Uris in the name of teamwork, I just wish we could be more like the Yankees. Group work is one topic at Columbia about which there is no shortage of opinion. But we all know what the bad groups are like. Maybe we should hire Yankee coach Joe Torre to come during orientation and teach us once and for all what it really means to be a team.
Teamwork is the buzzword of today, but how does it manifest itself in reality.
We are not born team players. We come into this world and are thrown together with a bunch of strangers and are told to just get along. But judging from the number of prisons and the number of people in them, the desired result is not always the case. Then we come to business school and again are told to get along with our groups. There are five key things that led the Yankees to victory.