Before you start selecting your next team I’m going to throw something out there. “There is no I in team” would be one of the dumbest most stupid clichés in the sporting and business world. We have all heard it. Many of us repeat it and repeat it. Some of us even have it hanging in a frame on our walls. What the hell for?

What about "a champion team will always beat a team of champions" - what a heap of BS. This rarely happens unless they stuff it up. 

Anyway champion teams are almost always full of individual champions! Teams do not win big titles consistently without a superstar performer or two or three. The lack of high achieving individuals (I’s) is the exact reason so many teams do fail. That’s the real problem.

Fact: All great players and workers alike seek individual recognition of some form for their own individual performances. That is why they choose to do what they do. If they don’t want recognition then they will contribute little to your team. Individual recognition is how they make it into the big teams; get big contracts and big pay packets! 

We should always strive to achieve to our maximum capacity. Great performers “love doing the hard work, they stay focused and make the right choices” because they want to be the BEST PLAYER on the BEST TEAM. That is what makes great performers great. That is what I expect from every player that I coach. It’s simple really - anything less and they don't last. 

Note: For some reason many coaches and managers appear scared to select I’s. Is that because as coaches they lack courage and have poor people management skills?

Great teams are the by-product of a collection of great performances produced by a collective of great individual performers.

If you don’t agree with me on any of this then chances are you are just another mediocre performer that is happy to sit back, let others do the work, under use what talent you may have, achieve nothing much then whinge and whine about being undervalued.

Fletch’s Big Tip: Great team's need I's. Great teams are full of WELL MANAGED individually great performers – if you want to win BIG then don’t be scared to pick them!

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