Chapter 3. Put the Team First
“The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world,but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.”
—Babe Ruth
Putting the Team First
Working within a high-performance team requires a tradeoff between virtuosity and collaboration. In his paper Creativity and Improvisation in Jazz and Organizations: Implications for Organizational Learning, Frank Barrett (1998, 617) noted that in jazz:
It is not enough to be an individual virtuoso. [O]ne must also be able to surrender one’s virtuosity and enable others to excel.
We’ve discussed the need to staff a team with top talent. Unfortunately, many high-achieving individuals tend to focus ...
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