On Accountability and Teams

One of my favorite websites is http://www.hoopthoughts.blogspot.com/.

This is more than a basketball website, as the messages that are posted on there relate to success in life and not just basketball.

One of this week's posts comes from Jon Katzenbach and Douglas Smith's work, The Wisdom of Teams, and it deals with how a group can become a team; only by holding itself accountable.


Click on the link below for that post.

http://hoopthoughts.blogspot.com/2009/10/team-accountability.html


We can only expect to become a true team when all involved are putting forth real work toward a common purpose. Until that happens, out ability to become a true team is all talk.

With the first practice just 33 days away, all Athenians must use this last month to do everything they can do to be ready for a great winter, individually and collectively.

In basketball, this means thousands of extra shots, extra time with coaches and teammates on skill work, extra time and reps in the weight room, and raising one's own level of conditioning.

Athenians - Do not let a day go by without doing something to help our common purpose; to be the best team we can be this winter.