The vast majority of organizations today have more than enough intelligence, experience and knowledge to be successful. What they lack is organizational health.

Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.

Building a cohesive leadership team is the first critical step that an organization must take if it is to have the best chance at success.

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

There is just no escaping the fact that the single biggest factor determining whether an organization is going to get healthier - or not - is the genuine commitment and active involvement of the person in charge.

Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare.

I've become absolutely convinced that the seminal difference between successful companies and mediocre or unsuccessful ones has little, if anything, to do with what they know or how smart they are; it has everything to do with how healthy they are.