How many business models do what they do all by themselves? Too many.
Teamwork is vital to success. Learning the art of permitting, arranging and managing an organized effort is one of the best components to employ if a business leader desires to become very successful. The most successful ones are surrounded by a lot of very good help. The successful ones completely understand this working principle. Unfortunately, there are not very many successful business leaders. Most business leaders struggle from one day to the next, quietly. There is no fanfare to the art of business struggling. It occurs quite quietly. This leads us to the question, how many business leaders tend to avoid accentuating this principle? How many business leaders do not employ an organized effort often enough? Again the answer remains, too many.
Teamwork is the key. Teamwork holds a wonderful stick that points directly to the path of success. Most who learn this art and the truth it provides do not easily drift away from the practice of teamwork. Once it is discovered and clearly understood, it occurs more frequently. Unfortunately, those who do it the most are the ones who win the most. They are the ones who add to the practice of performing more teamwork. Those business leaders who do not 'get it' are the ones who do not add to the practice of team play. The winners win more often and the 'also rans' continue to remain self-propelled to struggle some more. This is not a great surprise to the evening news. Most of us see this truth very well.
Teamwork. What about teamwork? How much do you use it? How often do you permit your employees to drive portions of your business model? I mean, truly! How often do you allow one of your employees to place all of the product ordering? How often do you allow one of your employees to select the next new hire? How often do you permit an employee to manage the business accounting? How often do you arrange an employee to produce, initiate and mange your complete business marketing plans? If any of your answers are never...you may be one of those struggling business leaders. You may have one of the most common business failure afflictions, lack of team play. Teams win. Individuals usually get slaughtered. The world of business is way too competitive to take it all on by yourself. Get serious. Your competition is slopping up all of the excess business you are not able to harness. If they are approaching your markets with better team play, they are winning more often. It is as simple as that little truth. You may be the only one who is denying it. Your checkbook may be the only other one who knows this truth.
Teamwork. It is vital to employ it if you plan on winning much in the business world. There are no big secrets to the effects teamwork brings to the success table. Teamwork is not a big surprise. Its obvious presence can be found in every successful business model. Team play is vital to success. Team play is vital to helping the business model produce a better checkbook balance. It is not a great big secret. It is simple to see. It is not hard to do. Yet it is absent in so many business models. Why?
The amount of valid success suggestions easily available to the business leader in this day and age is staggering. The 'steps to success' are not a great big secret. They are evident, reported, repeated and posted into the front of our wandering minds. They are easily accessible. They are clearly defined. They come packaged beautifully with wonderful examples for easy detection. Why then are these success principles so easily missed by so many business leaders? It has to be their mind. They have rough things going on inside their absorbing minds. What else could be the reason?
The benefits to producing good teamwork is obvious. So why do so many business leaders ignore this function? Better yet, why do so many business leaders actually believe they are producing good team play when they are not? The secret to these answers is in the mind. The mind is difficult. That's why.
Team play is not produced well because the mind of the leader is very difficult to overcome. Most business leaders believe they have a balanced and productive mind. If you were to stop on the street and ask strangers in America what position in the world does America hold in the standings of education success, what would be their answer? Most would suggest America is somewhere in the top five. This study was actually conducted in Chicago three years ago. It was an experiment. Most Americans actually believed that America was number one in education performance. In most studies of actually performance factors, however, America is much much lower on the world scale of performance standings. This is exactly how business leaders evaluate their teamwork policies. Their mind believes what it wants to believe and the truth rest far behind. Denial is a mind affliction. It is the mind that is difficult.
I have worked with many business leaders who do not practice good teamwork. I can also report that very few of those business leaders produced enough business success that would be worth parading around as stellar examples of business performance. In fact, all of those business leaders I am thinking about were always trapped into performing their work in a struggling business environment. They had very little respect for team play and they always performed the work of a struggling business model. Yet when asked if they promote and support teamwork efforts, they would easily and quickly answer, "yes." It is the mind that is difficult...not the principles to success.
The positive effects of teamwork efforts is not brand new news, just denied. The business leaders who deny the avoidance of producing good team play are the ones who struggle the most in the competitive world of business development. Teamwork is vital to helping small business models compete at higher levels. The current demand to produce well is so high that many individuals do not have the time, the energy nor the expertise to perform consistently and effectively at those higher levels of production. Consequently, they believe they are performing good team play and struggling to produce better business results. They continue to flop along with less than desirable results.
Stop the foolish and trickery work. Get serious about producing good team play. Begin working on your own personal skills to be able to permit someone else to drive some of the ship. Rally yourself to find interesting ways to break the chain of control that governs away the use of team play. Engage your staff. Find out who is strong enough to do certain things that need to be done. Let go of those reigns and permit those people you discover to perform those tasks, completely. You can always review what is going on. As you should. However, do not try to tell them how to do it the way you do it. That is not team play. That kind of governance requires your full attention and is still controlling what ought not to be controlled. Get away from the steering wheel on some of these subjects. Allow teamwork to take place.
For those business leaders who desire to become more successful, recognize the truth that it will never occur with you doing all of the work, all by yourself. Delegate some tasks, some responsibilities and definitely some accountability to the staff you have hired to do the work your business model needs done. Get the ball moving closer to a better sense of teamwork efforts. Encourage yourself to permit this to happen more frequently. It will be a tall test but you need to do it and you can. Get away from the limitations of your own mind and permit team play to grow well in your business model.
Turn up the teamwork play! Get over yourself.
Until next time...
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