As a Comic book and Superhero fan it is only natural that I would want to comment on the Avengers and how awesome they are....however when we break down what/who they are and what this shows us about team work and leadership we do see some very important lessons to be learned.
All teams tend to go through a -Forming-Storming-norming-then performing framework even teams that are hugely successful in there fields like the Avengers or the recently crown RWC world Champions the All Blacks. A lot of work went into the collecting of the members, the psychological profiling of each member...analysing how they would work together and what roles/functions that they should perform. The Director has a global picture but is flexible enough to recognise that it has to change as the team evolves and even as his position evolves. As modern leadership books will tell you selecting the right members of your team is a vital part of leadership as is 'getting them in the right seats on the bus'. Having an overall vision for what/where the team could go is useful but often this will be challenged and indeed changed when faced possibly by a hostile board of directors or even competition from an 'alien' company. Belief in the team and the members within it may falter unless held to with the passion of an old time preacher quoting Ezekiel.
All teams have various personalities within them often some with boarderline issues with sociability or even acceptability-the drinking and fatalism of Captain America was not his undoing but rather humanised him giving him a platform to see the world from that was/is unique amongst the team members. Rather than being excluded as was initially proposed this very difficult team member who often works for and seemingly against the team (has his own agenda) was brought into the squad and was mentored by the director himself often being given leadership opportunities and projects for him to complete that utilise his unique skills and attitudes.
There might be many 'type A' personalities in your team-maybe none of them are Norse gods but they may carry a lot of weight like a mythical hammer. Eventually the team when facing an impossible situation (a corporate scandal of VW proportions)- all tend to look to the 'natural leader' amongst them the one with the 'war' experience who has seen many a battle and learned tough lessons along the way.
Teamwork is vital in the modern business world with no one lone hero able to achieve it all-we all need our support staff and team members to get even the simplest of tasks completed. That being said when we face a big challenge the team members all remember when to call in the big guns and let him go 'Code Green' on the situation. Working together requires a heart-a fair deal of emotional intelligence in the leadership something that not all the team members will be able to cope with so Hawkeye rises to the front able to solve interpersonal issues and redirect focuses when they are misplaced a vital team member for the continued collaboration of the ensemble.
As the story of the Avengers continues we see the that the team changes-new staff members come and old members go each for their own reasons and with new members new dynamics need to be resolved new leadership needs to be created and skills developed as a new unit where strategies and 'plays' will be based on new members not the old ones.
Bring on the next Avengers movie when we see them battle the biggest challenge a veritable 'Alphabet' of a competitor wielding the glove of 'Amazon' or something like that...let's see the team work through their personal issues to face this new threat to their business.
All teams tend to go through a -Forming-Storming-norming-then performing framework even teams that are hugely successful in there fields like the Avengers or the recently crown RWC world Champions the All Blacks. A lot of work went into the collecting of the members, the psychological profiling of each member...analysing how they would work together and what roles/functions that they should perform. The Director has a global picture but is flexible enough to recognise that it has to change as the team evolves and even as his position evolves. As modern leadership books will tell you selecting the right members of your team is a vital part of leadership as is 'getting them in the right seats on the bus'. Having an overall vision for what/where the team could go is useful but often this will be challenged and indeed changed when faced possibly by a hostile board of directors or even competition from an 'alien' company. Belief in the team and the members within it may falter unless held to with the passion of an old time preacher quoting Ezekiel.
All teams have various personalities within them often some with boarderline issues with sociability or even acceptability-the drinking and fatalism of Captain America was not his undoing but rather humanised him giving him a platform to see the world from that was/is unique amongst the team members. Rather than being excluded as was initially proposed this very difficult team member who often works for and seemingly against the team (has his own agenda) was brought into the squad and was mentored by the director himself often being given leadership opportunities and projects for him to complete that utilise his unique skills and attitudes.
There might be many 'type A' personalities in your team-maybe none of them are Norse gods but they may carry a lot of weight like a mythical hammer. Eventually the team when facing an impossible situation (a corporate scandal of VW proportions)- all tend to look to the 'natural leader' amongst them the one with the 'war' experience who has seen many a battle and learned tough lessons along the way.
Teamwork is vital in the modern business world with no one lone hero able to achieve it all-we all need our support staff and team members to get even the simplest of tasks completed. That being said when we face a big challenge the team members all remember when to call in the big guns and let him go 'Code Green' on the situation. Working together requires a heart-a fair deal of emotional intelligence in the leadership something that not all the team members will be able to cope with so Hawkeye rises to the front able to solve interpersonal issues and redirect focuses when they are misplaced a vital team member for the continued collaboration of the ensemble.
As the story of the Avengers continues we see the that the team changes-new staff members come and old members go each for their own reasons and with new members new dynamics need to be resolved new leadership needs to be created and skills developed as a new unit where strategies and 'plays' will be based on new members not the old ones.
Bring on the next Avengers movie when we see them battle the biggest challenge a veritable 'Alphabet' of a competitor wielding the glove of 'Amazon' or something like that...let's see the team work through their personal issues to face this new threat to their business.