Successful teams strike a balance between two conflicting attributes: individual initiative and group needs. On the one hand, each individual wants to believe that he or she has an opportunity to make decisions—the authority to apply his or her talents in coming up with solutions. On the other hand, the larger goal of the project rules, and each individual must work with the others as a single team. How can you achieve a compromise between the desire to satisfy an individual ego and the less personal team priority? The answer is to identify areas of responsibility rather than merely pass out tasks. Building a team is.
