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

Members of trusting teams admit weaknesses and mistakes, take risks in offering feedback and assistance, and focus time and energy on important issues, not politics.

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

Choose your companions before you choose your road.

If the CEO's behavior is 95 per cent healthy while the rest of the organization is only 50 per cent sound, it is more effective to focus on that crucial and leveraged 5 per cent that makes up the reminder of the CEO's behavior.

Building a strong team is both possible and remarkably simple. But is painfully difficult.

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