HBO session 5-6

Key Insights:

I would like to give my thoughts on the traditional team and a virtuoso team.

Personally i feel that virtuoso teams are a must in the kind of competitive world that we are living in. All the ambitious projects would require an above average strategy and a virtuoso team is more likely to come out successfully. However it also a challenge strike the right balance between the egos and the task at hand. Hence it emphasis the role of the leader or the facilitator. Therefore the most important element of the virtuoso team is perhaps the leader or the facilitator of such a virtuoso group.

I would like to relate this to a old English movie " Twelve angry men". The movie is about a trial where twelve distinguished men assemble to decide on a murder mystery about a boy murdering his father. All of them have their personal clashes and egos. They are given a short deadline to discuss and come out with a consensus on the decision. If all the people were not focused probably in the haste to come out with a decision they have reached on consensus which may or mat not be just. However in the movie there is one person who acts as a leader and convinces and persuades all the people to think logically and stay focused. He facilitates the discussion in an amazing fashion and all the twelve men eventually keep their personal prejudice and egos apart and come out with a well thought decision. They declare the boy innocent.

So i understand that the success of the virtuoso team depends a lot on the leader rather than the individual personalities in the team.