IntroductionAn Amazing Journey

Teams are certainly not a new idea. Most of us have had some experience participating on a team. It may have been a sports team, a debate team, a team organized to solve a problem, as part of a nonprofit organization or maybe a team at work. As a result of our individual experiences, we will each read the pages that follow with a point of view informed by our past. However, I want to encourage you to put those experiences behind you because most of us have had team experiences that were far from ideal—most of us have never been part of a true high-performance team.

If you can approach the idea of teams with fresh eyes, you could be on the verge of a tremendous breakthrough. A breakthrough in performance, a breakthrough ...

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