Team is what matters

Having played ice hockey since I was 5 years old I was thinking about what hockey, individual skills, and business have in common. That’s what our weekends are for, right? 🙂

It is only a thin strip of metal on my skate that separates me from the ice. All of us are equals. Or at least, we seem to be.
Yet only a few seconds after our skates skim over the ice, one is able to see that we are not equals.

One can distinguish between the players’ different abilities. Those inexperienced. Those willing to take risks.

The dance begins and regardless of how we perform as individual we must work together in order to achieve our goals.

As a team we must know each other’s weaknesses, motivations, and be able to predict each others actions in order to compensate for each other.

Gliding in unison a team relies on this cohesion and trust. When we merge together as a team, whether in the business world or on the ice,
individual distinction is no longer important.

It is the TEAM that matters.