27/10/2021
DREAMING FOR A BIG TEAM?
STEPS TO MAKE YOUR DREAM TEAM
Daring to dream with a bad team is like hoping to end a nightmare with a smile.
An individual termite working all life, at the most may make one hole in wood but when thousands of them work together, they can make an entire colossal tree hollow !!!
Therefore to achieve a big dream, you undoubtedly need a big team. Team building is more about team dreams than individual dreams and Without synchronization of dreams, there cannot be building of teams.
When you see Mahabharata, there is a fascinating example of bad teamwork in action.
In the battle of Kurukshetra, the Kauravas had a much larger team, unluckily, it was largely an ego-driven team.
The most important generals in the team disliked one another to the point of hatred and they were busy trying to prove themselves to be better than the others, in terms of intelligence, artillery skills, and loyalty. Karna hated Bhishma, Bhishma hated Shakuni, Shakuni hated Karna, Karna hated Shalya and Shalya hated Bhishma.
Most of Duryodhana’s energy went into strategic maintenance of peace between the team members than in making strategic plans for the war.
Key takeaways:
The strength of a team lies in collectively cooperating, for phenomenal success. It's about clearly keeping the goal in mind and pushing each other throughout the way when one falls short.
Most of the time team members are used to polishing their own image. Ego spurts in members lead to team disintegration even before the team builds up.
Flaunting your own greatness results in a team of multi-headed snakes with different heads popping up to establish individual one-up-man-ships over the other heads
Team building is about synergising the individual egos of the team members into team confidence. When the insecurity of being overshadowed vanishes, then people don’t mind subordinating their individual ambitions to focus on team goals. When conviction of the dream enters, then commitment flows out of the team.
When people are motivated about the cause they are affiliated with, they work with uncommon zeal to help achieve it.
By Shubha Vilas Das
