The Secret Sauce for Creating High-Performance Teams

High-performing teams consistently outperform comparable teams. Here are the ingredients or secret sauce for creating your own high-performance teams.

Anthony Mersino
Leadership and Agility
18 min readMar 8, 2024

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Heinz, the ketchup people, recently announced that they have developed a ketchup machine that lets you create an infinite number of custom ketchup sauces (well, up to 200 actually). What it won’t do is create the secret sauce for high-performing teams.

And that is OK because you don’t need a machine to create the secret sauce for high-performing teams. We will spell out for you what is in the secret sauce so that you can create your own high-performing teams.

This article explains why high-performing teams are important, debunks some incorrect assumptions about the ingredients, and then reveals the secret sauce for high-performance teams so you can use it in your organization.

Let’s start first by defining what we mean by a high-performing team.

What Is a High-Performing Team?

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Anthony Mersino
Leadership and Agility

Author, Thought Leader, Agility Consultant and Value Delivery Specialist