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

. . . his biggest problem was his need for a problem.

Success comes only for those groups that overcome the all-too-human behavioral tendencies that corrupt teams and breed dysfunctional politics within them.

As a leader, you're probably not doing a good job unless your employees can do a good impression of you when you're not around.

Like a good marriage, trust on a team is never complete; it must be maintained over time.

If everything is important, then nothing is.

Trust is the foundation of real teamwork. And so the first dysfunction is a failure on the part of team members to understand and open up to one another. And if that sounds touchy-feely, let me explain, because there is nothing soft about it. It is an absolutely critical part of building a team. In fact, it’s probably the most critical.