Rol said, in part, in LO17015:
>...I made the point that of 22 teams, with and without leaders, there
>was no correlation between success and presence or absence of leadership.
>This may not square with your experience, but it is mine, and all 22 teams
>are in the same environment. It would be hard to identify the _different_
>external forces leading to success or failure. Most of us believe that
>the causes of failure had nothing to do with the presence or absence of
>leadership, but with specific individual team members, or with unclear
>goals -- goals generated by the teams themselves.
I think it has a lot to do with lots of things and I'll ascribe at least
some aspects of successful teamwork to the
Mud Management Theory of Team Building.
This is explained simply, of course:
Successful development of most kinds are caused by throwing mud
at the wire fence. You're not sure what will stick where when but
the critical activity is throwing lots of mud over a period of time.
Plan on some rain, more in El Nino years. Keep throwing. Step back
once in a while to look at overall progress and celebrate successes.
Hope that helps enormously,
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