With every passing year, astute team-building becomes more crucial as a leadership skill. For leaders today, success is a team sport.

Our world has simply become so complex that no one person can master all the nuances of developing new products, bringing them to market, and promoting them effectively. Strong teams housing a wide variety of talents are essential to leadership achievement in almost every arena.

Recently I was interviewed about leadership on Close-Up Television. Early in the conversation, the host raised the issue of team-building. In this episode I share a portion of the discussion which followed.

I explain why highly authoritarian styles of leadership have had to give way to more participative approaches. Next I explain why, as part of that change, team-building has emerged as a non-negotiable leadership priority. I then look at five essentials which leaders must instill in their teams if those teams are to be strong and vibrant.

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