From the course: Dream Teams: Working Together without Falling Apart (Blinkist Summary)

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Goals unite teams

Goals unite teams

From the course: Dream Teams: Working Together without Falling Apart (Blinkist Summary)

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Goals unite teams

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- [Instructor] Blink number six, superordinate goals and mutual respect assist in unifying teams. When you think about it, the communist authoritarian Soviet Union was an unusual ally for the capitalist democracies of the West during the Second World War, but when faced with the existential threat of Hitler's forces, they put aside their differences and put their minds to the task at hand. There's a broader lesson in this. Superordinate goals unite people from different backgrounds who have quite different ideas. An even more extreme version of this occurred in the War of 1812. The British were planning to take back the newly independent U.S.A. They planned to send military vessels up the Mississippi River, but the port city of New Orleans stood in their way. The American general Andrew Jackson was struggling to match British troop numbers, and so was forced to muster up not only his own trained calvary, but also…

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