A functional team must make the collective results of the group more important to each individual than individual members' goals.

When you know your reason for existence, it should effect the decisions you make.

No action, activity, or process is more central to a healthy organization than the meeting

It is dangerous if our identity as a leader becomes more important than our identity as a child of God.

As difficult as it is to build a team, it is not complicated. In fact, keeping it simple is critical, whether you run the executive staff at a multi-national company, a small department within a larger organization, or even if you are merely a member of a team that needs improvement.

Team members who are not genuinely open with one another about their mistakes and weaknesses make it impossible to build a foundation for trust.

If everything is important, then nothing is.