Mapping Motivation for Top Performing Teams

Chapter 7

Belief and top performing teams

We come now to the third element of a top performing team: Figure 7.1 emphasises the need for team members to hold strong Belief(s) if the team is really going to function at a high level. In Figure 1.2 we indicated that mere groups of people working together had no specific beliefs or even false beliefs and furthermore were invariably infected with a certain kind of negativity.¹ This negativity may not even be any individual’s fault; they may simply have been recruited and joined a negative group of people. But this negativity can hold them, too, in its grasp, especially after resistance to it is exhausted; one comes to believe nothing can or will change and this is just the way things are.

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