{"id":5171,"date":"2024-03-01T06:14:58","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T06:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chchealthwatch.com\/blog\/?p=5171"},"modified":"2025-05-02T04:35:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T04:35:22","slug":"the-puzzle-that-a-team-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chchealthwatch.com\/blog\/the-puzzle-that-a-team-is\/","title":{"rendered":"The Puzzle That a Team Is: Fitting Together for Strength"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chchealthwatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Blog-images-22-768x512-1.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5316\" style=\"width:600px;height:undefinedpx\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chchealthwatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Blog-images-22-768x512-1.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.chchealthwatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Blog-images-22-768x512-1-300x200.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:22px\">When I was a child, the importance of togetherness was illustrated to me with a simple example. My mother would give me a single twig and ask me to break it, which I easily would. Then she\u2019d give me two sticks and ask me to do the same, and with some difficulty, I could manage to break the pair. But then she\u2019d give me a stack of sticks and ask me to have a go, and try as I might, I could never break them. Then she\u2019d tell me, \u201cSon, look; that\u2019s how life is. In togetherness lies strength.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:22px\">Today, as an entrepreneur and leader, I myself have reams to write about the importance of togetherness. And that isn\u2019t just societal harmony or general social cohesion whose importance I\u2019m acutely aware of, but of collaboration at the workplace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:22px\">You see, a company is not made of similar people. Just as with any other congregation, a corporate setup too is a composition of diverse people with diverse minds and diverse backgrounds. We each have our individuality that makes us unique and different from everyone else. But we still find a point of convergence. And that is the jigsaw puzzle that a team is. And what\u2019s better is that the pieces of this puzzle are not hard and set; they\u2019re dynamic, changeable and soft, so that we can alter the outer edges of what we\u2019re capable of, and mesh with each other superbly to make one cogent organism that surges ahead in the service of others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:22px\">And for that to happen, each of you needs to commit to going beyond yourself in the interest of a larger goal. Each of us is enough unto ourselves. 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