The key ingredient to building trust is not time. It is courage.

It's as simple as this. When people don't unload their opinions and feel like they've been listened to, they won't really get on board.

Organizational health is the single greatest competitive advantage in any business.

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

Trust is the confidence among team members that their peers' intentions are good, and that there is no reason to be protective or careful around the group. In essence, teammates are not comfortable being vulnerable with one another.

Teamwork remains a sustainable competitive advantage that has been largely untapped because it is hard to measure (teamwork impacts the outcome of an organization in such comprehensive and invasive ways that it's virtually impossible to isolate it as a single variable) and because it is extremely hard to achieve (it requires levels of courage and discipline that few executives possess) - ironically, building a strong team is very simple (it doesn't require masterful insights or tactics).

Choose your companions before you choose your road.