What is a Team?
Here is Google’s definition
team (noun)
1. a group of players forming one side in a competitive game or sport.
team (verb)
1. come together as a team to achieve a common goal.
2. match or coordinate a garment with (another).
Google definition is great for either the noun or the verb. Is there any sport in history as competitive as business? Is there any better way of defining a business than “a group of players forming one side”? You could apply both of those to almost any business and it would work superbly. “A group of players (business) forming one side (their unique offering) in a competitive game or sport (the marketplace).
For our needs the verb is a little closer to home though. “Come together as a team to achieve a common goal”. This speaks very well to Team Development. Back to the original question.