Spain’s win last night reminded us what happens when a team finds an identity to become something much greater than the sum of its parts.
Watching last night’s final unfold I was struck by what it revealed about the character of the two teams. Gareth Southgate has instilled a culture of pride and resilience to this England team, which has showed itself moments of individual brilliance from Bellingham, Saka, Watkins and Palmer.
Yet Spain have something that transcends all their individual brilliance, what Guillaume Ballague called “layers”, a culture that weaves resilience, creativity, adaptability and so much more into a personality that feels whole and separate from the sum of its parts.
This is what every team should aspire to, whether in sport or in business. So many organisations try to build and live their culture, but a culture has to be understood and grown on a cellular level.
Gareth has done a great job in projecting his own values onto his team, but it feels skin deep. We don’t have Spain’s training infrastructure, where layers of craft are nurtured from a young age and where players and managers can work together to express a thing of beauty.
This concept of layers is what is at the heart of The Human Organisation, a framework that helps businesses look at themselves as if they were a person, to find a deeper understanding of who they are and who they can be.
I’m piloting this framework with Jindy Mann and you can find out more about it here: https://lnkd.in/e2UTBYUX.
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4moThe energy in that room is coming through the pictures . A great example of team building. Well done to all.