{"id":44943,"date":"2013-10-25T06:01:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T13:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/customerthink.com\/team_purpose_method\/"},"modified":"2013-10-25T06:01:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-25T13:01:00","slug":"team_purpose_method","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/customerthink.com\/team_purpose_method\/","title":{"rendered":"Team, Purpose, Method"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/0070580286\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1634&#038;creative=6738&#038;creativeASIN=0070580286&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=squaw-21\">a line of thought<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c1\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-uk.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=squaw-21&#038;l=as2&#038;o=2&#038;a=0070580286\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> that there are <strong>three key factors at work in your organisation:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>These 3 things inter link<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Without a purpose you don&#8217;t need teamwork (watching the TV is not a team sport)<\/li>\n<li>If you have a purpose but no method, your efforts will fail (a dream without a plan&hellip;)<\/li>\n<li>A team without method may be enthusiastic but still unsuccessful (5-year-olds playing <a title=\"onthepitch.org\" href=\"http:\/\/onthepitch.org\/faq\/soccer-parents\/what-is-swarm-ball\/\" target=\"_blank\">swarm ball<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And they <a title=\"Form Follows Function\" href=\"http:\/\/www.squawkpoint.com\/2013\/10\/form-follows-function\/\">work best when they line up<\/a>&hellip;<\/p>\n<h4>Different teams, different purpose, different method<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/d1m3qhodv9fjlf.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/traffic-jam.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13741\" alt=\"traffic jam\" src=\"http:\/\/d1m3qhodv9fjlf.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/traffic-jam-e1382596257598.jpg\" width=\"300\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Different teams, different purpose, one method<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/d1m3qhodv9fjlf.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/dodgem-cars.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13739\" alt=\"dodgem cars\" src=\"http:\/\/d1m3qhodv9fjlf.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/dodgem-cars-e1382596336999.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Different teams, one purpose, one method<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/d1m3qhodv9fjlf.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/cycling.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13742\" alt=\"cycling\" src=\"http:\/\/d1m3qhodv9fjlf.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/cycling-e1382596414435.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>One team, one purpose, one method<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/d1m3qhodv9fjlf.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/bob-sleigh.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13740\" alt=\"bobsleigh\" src=\"http:\/\/d1m3qhodv9fjlf.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/bob-sleigh-e1382596494849.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Team, purpose, method.<\/h4>\n<p>It isn&#8217;t really that insightful a line of thought, blindingly obvious really.<\/p>\n<p>So why are we surprised that when we have:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>different departments<\/li>\n<li>using different systems<\/li>\n<li>to different aims<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>things don&#8217;t got as smoothly as they might?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a line of thought that there are three key factors at work in your organisation: These 3 things inter link Without a purpose you don&#8217;t need teamwork (watching the TV is not a team sport) If you have a purpose but no method, your efforts will fail (a dream without a plan&hellip;) A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7660,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[128,92],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/customerthink.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44943"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/customerthink.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/customerthink.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/customerthink.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7660"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/customerthink.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/customerthink.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/customerthink.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/customerthink.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/customerthink.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}