Yes, everyone can take the wheel. Everyone can drive. Everyone can push forward. Everyone can be unyielding and never give up. Everyone can run. Everyone can push forward. And when the entire team is doing it, they are unstoppable.
Teams shift based on external factors – opportunities and threats. One makes them, urges them to take on more, excited for what is next. One pushes them to hide, close ranks, become insular, and worry about what may come. Every shift is an opportunity and a threat, depending on who you are and what your narrative is. The question becomes, what your team sees as a threat and what you need to do to shift…
Only you know the answer to what else you can do to solve a problem, to fix what’s wrong, to figure out what to work on next. The question of “What Else can you do?” isn’t for someone else to ask, it’s for you to ask of yourself. We do things as a team, but the ones that ask this question of themselves all the time, are the ones that emerge as the leaders.
We ask kids to work together to solve problems. We ask kids to play on teams to solve problems. When young adults go get jobs, we ask them to reach out to coworkers for help. When they start their first full-time job, we implore on them to ask questions and bring others into the conversation to resolve issues. Work as a team, be a part of the team and support everyone else. But when it…
The burst happens when you’re tired. When you don’t think you have any energy left to give. When all you want to do is sit down and rest. But then you see something, a spark, a moment where you think you can make a difference, and from nowhere this swell of energy comes out at you and you know you have to capitalize on it. Some people are able to continually change bursts together (which…