team...

Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is TEAMWORK that remains the ultimate competitive advantage - because it is so powerful and so rare.

The power of teamwork when...

"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, any time" [Lencioni, 2002]

Team can be expressed in a single word, SYNERGY. Synergy means that the sum of the whole is greater than its individual parts.

TEAM* can simply expressed as follows:

T = Trusting Relationship,
E = Established Purpose, Values and Goals,
A = Active Participation by All the Members of the Group, and
M = Mutual Accountability.

* Stephen G Fairley & Bill Zipp, 2008. The Business Coaching Toolkit