"If you make an effort to do the best you can
regularly, the results will be about what they should be. Not necessary to what
you want them to be, but they will be about what they should, and only YOU will
know whether you can do that. And that’s what I wanted from them more than
anything else. And as time went by, and I learned more about things, I think it
worked a little better, as far as the results."
John Wooden, one of the
most respected coaches in the history of UCLA men’s basketball let alone the
history of sports (6-Time Coach of the Year!), stated the above when asked to
talk about what teamwork means to him. As I personally reflect on the
aforementioned passage, I started to think of how I’d like to be talked about amongst
my peers, colleagues and coworkers when we’ve all clocked out for the day and
the water-cooler talk that happens outside the office begins. With that in mind,
I believe the best approach we can take to working with a group of people in an
organization (whom we may or may not get along with) needs to be viewed as if
we were structured together as teammates; with the intent of being the best we
can as a group.
