Get On the Right Team

You can be the most committed and capable workhorse on the planet, but if you're on the wrong team, the only thing you'll change is your team's allocation of work.

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When you’re on the right team, your working hard inspires your teammates to step up their game.

When you’re on the wrong team, your working hard causes your teammates to lean back, do less, and let you make up the difference.

If you want to create serious change then you need to get on the right team.

You can be the most committed and capable workhorse on the planet…

but if you’re on the wrong team, the only thing you’ll change is your team’s allocation of work (i.e., now you do more work and other people do less).

You need to get on a team where increasing your effort produces an outsized gain in your team’s collective effort.

Why “outsized”? Because when you’re on the right team, stepping up your game will inspire your teammates to step up their game as well.

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