Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they're doing it because they care about the team.

Failing to hold someone accountable is ultimately an act of selfishness.

Open, frank communication is the lynchpin to teamwork. A fractured team is like a fractured bone; fixing it is always painful and sometimes you have to re-break it to heal it fully - and the re-break always hurts more because it is intentional.

On a team, trust is all about vulnerability, which is difficult for most people.

An organization's strategy is simply its plan for success. It's nothing more than the collection of intentional decisions a company makes to give itself the best chance to thrive and differentiate from competitors.

Achieving vulnerability-based trust (where team members have overcome their need for invulnerability) is difficult because in the course of career advancement and education, most successful people learn to be competitive with their peers, and protective of their reputations. It is a challenge for them to turn those instincts off for the good of the team, but that is exactly what is required.

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