Something that is surprisingly difficult in business is having a true functioning team. In his book The Advantage, Patrick Lencioni articulates four disciplines that are necessary to achieve organizational health. Discipline 1 is to build a cohesive leadership team. He poses the question of whether a group of leaders is a "team" or a "working group."
You may ask, what's the difference?
A team is like a basketball team. It's a group of people that "play together simultaneously, in an interactive, mutually dependent, and often interchangeable way."
A working group is like a golf team where "players go off and play on their own and get together and add up their scores at the end of the day."
As I work with companies that commit to making the journey to implement EOS and become strong in the Six Key Components (Vision, People, Data, Issues, Process, & Traction) of EOS, I see teams develop in two ways:
The tools in EOS help teams build trust, eliminate politics, and increase efficiency because they:
Does your team appreciate each other, openly engage in constructive conflict and hold each other accountable? If not, you might have a working group.