The Importance of a Winning Attitude at the Workplace
Why a good team is not good enough today’s world
When you look at your business, you want it to grow, innovate, have an impact and be profitable. In today’s VUCA world more than ever, it’s not enough to have a competent team, that has the knowledge, communicates well and works together. One has to have a winning team. A winning team is different from a good team or a strong team. A winning team is the agile one, who can stretch objectives and can accomplish their targets, with a blend of profit and permanence for a better future.
So what are the key triggers that can create an impactful and winning team? Here are some points that one sees time and again in a winning team:
Winning Culture
A strong or weak organizational culture can make or break the best teams. I like this definition of culture by the Centre for Advanced Research on Language — “culture is shared patterns of behaviors and interactions, cognitive constructs and understanding that are learned by socialization in a state or family or organization”. A friendly culture or a virtuous culture will create a friendly team or a virtuous team. One presumes that it is enough, but it isn’t. A culture needs to nurture and support results and business performance, as well. A winning…
