We use the word team as if it is a one size fits all descriptor for a group of people who just happen to work together. I suppose it is a somewhat stimulating or even motivating title, but with true teams the focus of accomplishment becomes one of successful task achievement while balancing its people and processes, but make no mistake it has mutual accountability to the successfulness of the task.

High performance is a discipline. A collective discipline that is the sum of its parts. Interdependently there are individual roles and functions, but collectively a product is born. Let