Overcoming barriers to performance is how groups become teams.

Fun is only real and sustainable if it feeds off the team's purpose and performance aspirations.

A demanding performance challenge tends to create a team.

Overcoming barriers to performance is how groups become teams.

Real teams don't emerge unless individuals on them take risks involving conflict, trust, interdependence and hard work.

A demanding performance challenge tends to create a Team. In any situation requiring a combination of multiple skills, experiences and judgments, a team inevitably gets better results than a collection of individuals. Teams provide the kind of responsiveness, speed, on-line customization and quality that is beyond the reach of individual performance.

The same dynamics that promote performance also support learning and behavioral change.