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.

Choose your companions before you choose your road.

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

If you could get all the people in an organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time.

If everything is important, then nothing is.

No action, activity, or process is more central to a healthy organization than the meeting

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