Episode 283: What makes great teams great, with Stephen Woessner.
Good Morning Onward Nation\u2026I\u2019m Stephen Woessner. During today\u2019s solocast\u2026I am going to dig really deep \u2014 get personal \u2014 and share a story that will push my comfort zone quite a bit \u2014 but \u2014 the lesson in teamwork is powerful and that is why I want to share it with you, Onward Nation.
And so for this solocast \u2014 I am following the advice of many of our Onward Nation guests \u2014 when you feel that anxiety bubbling up \u2014 when you feel anxious about a topic \u2014 about a problem \u2014 about a situation in your business \u2014 you are likely headed in the right direction.
Don\u2019t run from it \u2014 instead \u2014 run toward it.
Don\u2019t let your fear overpower you \u2014 run toward the situation, Onward Nation \u2014 and you will likely be running toward your destiny.
You see\u2026your destiny is really big, impressive, and if God were to reveal it to you all at once\u2026it would likely frighten the living daylights out of you\u2026without the context of how you will also grow along the way in order to get there.
So today, I am going to share a story about a situation that caused me to grow \u2014 it pushed me like I had never been pushed before \u2014 and I grew as a result.
And then nothing I have faced ever since has even come close to being anywhere close to as difficult of a challenge.
Nothing, Onward Nation. Because of this one day\u2026I feel prepared to tackle any challenge \u2014 but not going at it alone.
No\u2026this is not lone wolf story \u2014 this is not a story about individual heroism \u2014 or some sort of self-aggrandizing.
No, this is a story about teamwork and what happens when you and your team decide to follow what my good friend and mentor, Don Yaeger discusses in his newly released book, \u201cGreat Teams\u201d\u2026when he illustrates in detail how great teams win in critical situations.
I had the privilege of interviewing Don for a third time recently \u2014 and \u2014 we aired Episode 282 yesterday so he could take us deep inside his latest book, \u201cGreat Teams \u2014 the 16 things high performing organizations do differently.\u201d
And Don\u2019s principle of how Great Teams win in critical situations was so inspiring to me that I wanted to share how I have seen this personally play out and hopefully this story will have value to you \u2014 despite how it is pushing my comfort zone to share this with you.
To take you deep inside this principle of Great Teams \u2014 I am going to take you back to the summer of 1990\u2026June 17, 1990, to be exact.