• Create an environment where “champions are inevitable”.
  • Articulate the vision and “ennoble the effort”.
  • Create a sense of mission.
  • Define short, immediate, and long–term goals.
  • Recruit talent.
  • Assign talent according to the abilities, needs, and desires of the individual.
  • Communicate the vision, mission, and goals to team members on a regular basis. Promote two–way communication.
  • Give the team a unique identity that sets it apart from everyone else. Define the team both in terms of what it is and what it is not.
       Remember, a team cannot operate in a vacuum.
  • Practice good leadership: Define your goals, concentrate your power, and take care of your people.
  • Ensure that the team and the individual members on the team “win every day”.