Chapter 4. Teamwork and Team Building

The National Geographic channel is a great place to learn about animal behavior and, if you are so inclined, it's also a great place to observe teamwork. The toiling ants look very inspirational and a pack of wolves is as ferocious as it gets. Most animal instincts are often explained as being driven by the simple needs of survival of self and are natural.

It's fair to assume that humans too are predisposed to work in teams. While prehistoric examples of humans living together are too dated for this book, joint families or even the nuclear families of today are a valid example of a team. A family is also a team with common goals (survival included), differentiated skills, and shared values. At school, we worked ...

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