77 Teamwork Team Building & Ego
b'Teamwork, team building and how ego can adversely affect your efforts.\\xa0 The biggest mistake I see consistently across companies is that every individual wants to own everything, that is, every idea.\\n\\n\\n\\nEvery person wants to take each idea and show that it\\u2019s at least in part theirs or it is theirs.\\xa0 What is more important success or your ego? Unfortunately, most can\\u2019t seem to determine or differentiate between the two.\\n\\nNow, teamwork or Team building is all about buy-in.\\xa0 The idea of course, is to get everybody joining forces together to accomplish something.\\nTake yourself out of the picture\\nIn this episode, I give you a couple of examples of things I did to include everyone except me. That is, I actually intentionally left out myself in order to get tremendous acceptance.\\n\\nI also give you a very detailed explanation of how the very same system the Japanese use is\\xa0completely compatible and inside an American company.\\n\\nSo you decide, what do you want profitability or success or the credit for an idea? You follow these examples and ideas you\\u2019ll be pleased with the results. By the way, almost everything I have ever seen trying to explain Japanese systems was wrong. They just don\\u2019t really understand the Japanese culture.\\n\\nIf someone says they just bought a new car, do you ever hear somebody say, \\u2018I got a new (mentions the car)\\u2019.\\nConsensus Kills Results\\nThe very concept of consensus is extremely annoying to me! Why? You\\u2019ll hear in this episode,\\u201d Consensus is the Minimization of Maximum Solutions.\\u201d\\xa0 I am just going to let you think on that one. But the idea is that consensus is a compromise on every facet of a solution amongst all members in the group.\\n\\nThe key to the solution is that you have not let your ego get in the way of progress, success and team building. You have teamwork.\\n\\nIn here, I explain how the head of one company, where I worked, went ballistic because I reached\\xa0profitability when he said wasn\'t possible.\\xa0 He actually felt embarrassed rather than coming out and joining me in a celebration. Now I didn\\u2019t even celebrate nor did I even say anything because being quiet was more important to survival. I\\u2019m sorry, that is crazy.\\n\\nI hope you can take some of these ideas and use humility. \\xa0Create teamwork through good team building whether it\\u2019s in your company or amongst your cohorts.\\n\\nPick up my just released book, "The Mechanics for Breakthrough Success" at Amazon, https://LifeUnsettled.com/bts\\xa0Just implement a few of the ideas and you will be very pleased.'