Teams of disagreeable people

Team : “a group of disagreeable people aligned around a common intention”

Travis Carson, Market Force Global

This week I have been writing around Collaborative Leadership, with “Golf Trips and Collaborative Leadership” and “To lead, do these three things”.

My mind now turns to one key to leadership, being Trust, and today will share a powerful model I learned from Travis Carson and how this relates to Trust.

In 2012 I met Travis Carson of Market Force. In fact, we met as roommates at a conference and when he told me about the Market Force system I kept him up for hours that first night so he could start to teach me. Over the next few months, I had the privilege of being taught in depth by Travis and, ever since then, have taught and shared the power of Market Force with many around the world.

One Market Force model I particularly love is the Breakdown Recovery Model. As Travis taught me:

1. Every Breakdown is an opportunity for a Breakthrough, and
2. Successful teams have frequent breakdowns

This somewhat counterintuitive thinking all leads to Travis’ definition of a team:

“a group of disagreeable people aligned around a common intention”