· The team that pulls together, wins together.
· That concept applies equally to sports and work teams.
In the mid 1980s, the Las Vegas Parks Department began sponsoring Olympic-style games called the Corporate Challenge in which most local businesses fielded employees to compete against other corporate teams. The Golden Nugget saw this as a great team building exercise and teams of employees competed in more than 25 categories. We were coached by an executive who had been a 4-letter athlete in college and an employee who had played professional football. The first event was tug-of-war, and they fielded a team that practiced relentlessly – they wanted to set the tone for the rest of the games. The rules called for a team that had a maximum weight limit – their plan was to pick generally smaller players, so they had more total bodies than other teams. More bodies meant more legs and their mantra was that nobody could win unless everybody wins. The other teams scoffed at us, but in the end, the gold went to our team. And that lesson was applied to work teams throughout the company and became a part of our corporate culture. Everybody pulling together, helping each other, and winning together. Manage with the conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there today.
Virginia Burden (1919-2008): American author (The Process of Intuition).
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