Teamwork is one of those words that gets used like a lucky charm. Along with "leadership", "prioritizing", and "circle back". We say them in a kickoff meeting, and everyone nods, but then the deadline hits, work gets messy, and suddenly teamwork means, “someone competent will quietly fix this.” That is not teamwork. It turns into a rescue mission and most teams don't have access to a Henry Cavill, Tom Cruise, or Alan Ritchson. Teamwork is what happens when a group can coordin

Collaboration is the skill every org claims to value, and then quietly punishes when deadlines hit. A launch slips, a client escalates, someone “just takes it on” to get it done, and the team calls it efficiency. Nope. It is a coordination failure that got temporarily masked by one competent person burning extra fuel. In my experience, most collaboration problems are not personality problems. They are practice problems . We put people in meetings to talk about teamwork, then

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