Leaders wear out their followers and themselves when they try to lead alone. Strengths and weaknesses are most exposed in individuals. Teams maximize a leader's potential and minimize her weaknesses. Teams involve more people, thus affording more resources, ideas and energies than would an individual. So, why are teams superior to individual effort? Because, anybody that's ever heard me teach always knows I talk about how that teams are much more superior than individual effort.

The Harvard Business School says that a team is a small number of people with complementary skills who are committed to a common purpose, performance goals and approach which they hold themselves mutually accountable. Here is John Maxwell.Īndrew Carnegie said, 'I owe whatever success I've achieved by and large to my ability to surround myself with people who are smarter than I am.' Business has recognized the power of teams. If you would like to download this, please visit /we and click the bonus resource button. This is a free fill in the blank PDF that accompanies each of John's lesson. It'll help you capture the key points in today's lesson. We have a free tool that we provide each and every week. That's why after John's lesson, I'll be joined by my co-host Becky Bursell and we're going to begin to help you and challenge you to navigate John's lesson so that we together can apply these lessons to our life and to our leadership. Some of these may seem obvious to you, but there's going to be others that will challenge you, that will maybe enlighten you. See, in this lesson, John is going to share six reasons why team effort is superior to individual effort. See, if you want to achieve anything big, you're going to need others in your life. John Maxwell says that one is too small of a number to achieve greatness and I think he's absolutely right. I'm Mark Cole and this week we're talking about how we is better than me.

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