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Re: What Contributes the Most to a Team's Success?
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Originally Posted by Daniel_LaFleur
... I think the answer to this question really has to do with how you define success. ...
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Blake thinks that Daniel hit the true nail on the head.
In the absence of a definition in the OP of "success", the answers here are interesting, but are largely not something one can draw many conclusions from.
Even the asnswer(s?) that used "inspriing students" as the defintion of success is still using a term that is useful but (purposefully I think) left vague enough within FIRST to resist quantification when it isn't paired up with a few modifiers that connect it to observable, measureable outcomes.
However, this might not be a bad situation. It simply is what it is, and it is a reason to think twice before using sentences like "What contributes most to a team's success?", or "Wow, they are really successful this year." Success is a slippery term.
Blake
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