Just because you say you’re a team, doesn’t make you an actual team.
Calling yourself a team is not the requisite for being a true team. Look at it from the sports angle. On a team that plays effectively, each player or participant in the team:
- Knows the clear overall strategy on how to reach an accepted end goal.
- Knows their role in the overall strategy of the team.
- Knows how to play their role better than everyone else, with excellence.
- Knows how their teammates fit into the overall strategy and how they complement them.
- Knows how to work in sync with the rest of the team.
There are more than just this short list of team qualifiers, but the picture is clear: just saying you’re a team does not qualify you as a team. Each team player needs to own the process of being a team.
