Bean’s leadership under CEO Leon Gorman because “they so believed in the brand,” she says. Her nominee for the perfect work team is L.L. Among pitfalls, she cites jumping into a work team without a clear idea of goals or a time frame and plowing ahead when a course correction is clearly needed. “The self-awareness piece is huge,” she says. Naddaff says the best teams are “courageous observers of themselves,” relentlessly weighing strengths and weaknesses. They have to be agile, to deal with complexity, to stay centered when everything goes to hell-and they have to be able to pull everything together anyway.” There’s nothing better than a new and enthusiastic team that, on a shoestring budget, tries to do something that’s never been done before. Says Tricia Naddaff, president of Management Research Group, a leadership specialist: “When teams interact, they create a new, stronger entity. Related: Rohn: The Biggest Challenge You’ll Face as a Leader It’s to say you built it in large part because you built a good team and worked well within it. (Think Sergey Brin, Larry Page and Eric Schmidt at Google or Walt Disney with his brother Roy and the “Nine Old Men” animators.) Although history-and the writing of Ayn Rand-tends to favor the lone-wolf entrepreneur, it’s usually teams that actually get the job done. The CliffsNotes leave out Clarence Avery, the lead developer Peter Martin, the head of assembly and Charles Sorensen, Martin’s assistant.
Henry Ford’s assembly line never would’ve happened without help.
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