Great Teams And The Success Of Building Together

The cornerstone to a great team is the sense of collective victory and the ability to celebrate each other's success.

- Rajesh Nair Associate Partner, Ernst Young LLP

Happy New year! Looking forward to another year of exploring the management together.

As we wound up 2022, we saw a flurry of CEO interviews, founders of great companies speaking on television, podcasts, articles et.al. The common thread of these seminal conversations and opinions was the learning from building a great organisation, their individual corporate journeys and the learning for the professional and the man on the street. While we got a cornucopia of ideas and seminal points of learning - there was one point that stood out - Great team!

If your scour reading material in every walk of life, be it football, business, politics, etc., one common theme you observe is the success attributed to a great team. We connect these comments, at times, to the magnanimity of a star who is giving undue credit to his/her team, while he/she is the true beacon of success. This is also because we are conditioned to thrive for individual excellence and in turn admire people who have achieved it. But more often than not, you are bewildered by the beauty of collective action, an exemplary success is a smorgasbord of sundry actions where everyone around had to play a role in it.