SuperTeams: Using the Principles of RESPECT™ to Unleash Explosive Business Performance

Epilogue

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.

—Herman Melville

For fun, type “team” into a Google search box, and you’ll get over a trillion hits—more than you get for the word “god.” If you’re looking to read another book on the subject, type the word “team” into an Amazon.com search box, and up pops over 100,000 titles. As a species, we’ve been living and working in teams for about 200,000 years, and as individuals, we’ve been involved with teams most of our lives. Given all humankind’s experience and accumulated knowledge on the subject, you’d think that we’d be pretty good at teaming ...