INTRODUCTION
Ethical Teamwork
The very essence of teams and teamwork is to seek common ground and search for “the truth.”
Gone unstated, individual team members create their own definitions of “the truth,” what’s right and wrong, as well as their own interpretations of proper standards of behavior. When team members are operating from different truths, assumptions, and values, teams invariably are rife with conflict, behave badly, and are simply nonproductive.
When team members are in alignment with the same values and standards, you don’t have these kinds of problems. They are open to different points of view. Extraordinary teams work together to discover the truth, searching for common ground and building a consensus.
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