![]() If you are a golf team competing in a tournament, your team score is likely to be above average. In this case, the executive does not have a team, but rather a collection of people working for him. I ask, “Do you have a high performing team?” The executive says “Yes.” I reply, “How do you know?” They invariably say, “Well, I have 4 high performers and 2 average performers.” I have had a conversation over and over through the years with executives that still surprises me every time it happens. Illusion: Team performance is cumulative. Fundamentally many teams are such in name only and their executives are under illusions which prevent them from acting in sync, as one, to win. It is deep-rooted beliefs which prevent leaders from seeing what is in front of them, and sometimes from even creating a team. I am not talking about the mundane comparison people bring up between a group and a team – that a group doesn’t share a common goal, but a team does. They use faulty assumptions which lead them to making the conclusion: “I have a team.” Sometimes it goes into an even further delusion: “I have a good team,” or “I have a great team!” In reality the people they are looking at are not a team at all. When they look at the people who report to them, they fill in the blanks and believe they are a team. ![]() Many leaders do the same thing with their teams. While that seems like a short time, it is enough time for your brain to fill in the blanks with what it thinks it sees. 1-second delay between seeing an object and your brain being able to decipher it. ![]() One of the reasons our mind gets fooled with optical illusions, like the picture below, is that there is a.
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