A641.5.3.RB- ICT at the Team level
When it comes to team
building and addressing complex adaptive system that are developed with a
multitude of key members a clear alignment of desired outcomes is essential for
motivating the collective towards a singular end state. If you don’t splice out
the individuality at an early stage of the team forming and norming process
then self-awareness will take on a completely new face. The collective really
needs to “buy into” the process in order to perform at its peak potential.
Since several sports are focal to the superstardom concept during execution an
all new perception of teambuilding has taken face in their preparation. This new
reality reared its ugly face after the highly anticipated Dream Team dominate
the Olympics during back to back appearances. The legacy superstars embodied
the emotional intelligence for which was needed to empower the team concept
over individuality, but the following teams missed it
altogether.
Limpert (2012) explains
that “the fall of the Dream Team can be explained simply: Its members played
like stars, not like a team, resting on their successes, not the task at hand.
Some would say the Dream Team began to take its dominance for granted.” It has
been both highly publicized and scrutinized how many times LeBron James used the
word “I” during after game interviews versus gold winning Captain Carli Anne
Lloyd used the word “we and team.” It was more like watching a Harley
Globetrotter game versus collective excellence of a body of power players.
This is definitely not
the case for the prolific women’s soccer teams that have dominated the Olympics
for decades. Their team concept take a whole different approach to the
superstardom fame that basketball has been recently known for. These dominate
soccer teams flatten the individuality concept which strips each player of
their own identity crises and forces them to find hope and compassion for the
collective.
If you don’t allow a
complex system to have adaptive focus for the betterment of the collective
whole then it will ultimately expand multilaterally without a center of
gravity. Therefore, misdirection enhances confusion for which dissonance
becomes the standard. The superstardom ego is also then enhanced for which many
players once again try to dominate with individuality. Once the complex team
can no longer be adaptive collectively which enhances overall performance, then
unilateral advancement starts to set in which is the final dagger in the
downward spiral of collective excellence.
References
Kleio
Akrivou, Richard. E. Boyatzis, Poppy L. McLeod, (2006) "The evolving group: towards a prescriptive theory
of intentional group development", Journal of Management
Development, Vol. 25 Issue:
7, pp.689-706, https://doi.org/10.1108/02621710610678490
Limpert, C. (2012). Lessons from basketball’s Olympic ‘dream team’ Retrieve from
https://www.inc.com/olympics/caroline-limpert/how-to-lead-a-team-of-superstars.html
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