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Re: Worst Moments in Team History
This has been an interesting thread. I'm glad Dave posted because he pretty much nailed what all the teams go through, I think.
I've thought about posting but 1 thing has stopped me:
Resilience. Every time I've thought of something that happened - then I've thought, oh yeah but the team did this or did this. Teams can be so resilient. You can have a pretty tough time on the competition field or find out you are 20 pounds overweight the week of ship - and the team overcomes the challenge or the disappointment, working together.
Working together, now that can be a challenge but - there's no time like the present to start work on improvements and building the team.
I also thought about teams who have lost members and how hard that must be to work through. Each time I read a thread in ChiefDelphi about a student or a mentor who has died, it greatly saddens me. I think about their families and I think of how the team will be impacted. When I think about that, the resilience factor becomes even more special.
There can be dark days on a team and the hope is that those days are numbered, leaving the brighter days open to infinite possibilities and discovery.
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Excellence is contagious. ~ Andy Baker, President, AndyMark, Inc. and Woodie Flowers Award 2003
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
~ Helen Keller (1880-1968)
Last edited by JaneYoung : 30-05-2008 at 14:59.
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