{"id":2102,"date":"2010-08-30T05:34:40","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T13:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edelalon.com\/blog\/?p=2102"},"modified":"2017-09-20T23:52:14","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T06:52:14","slug":"find-your-ambition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edelalon.com\/blog\/find-your-ambition\/","title":{"rendered":"Find Your Ambition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been dragging my feet around for the whole summer to a point where some people were worried about me. I&#8217;m not sure why or what caused the drag but there definitely was a drag. The other day one of my buddies sent me a link to a blog. I read a couple articles and I fell in love with the organizational tools (it remind me of some of the tools I&#8217;ve made for you on this site).<\/p>\n<p>More importantly, there is an article on team building that talks about the different ingredients needed to form a great team.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some point from the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>There are people who are driven intensely by the ambition to create exceptional experiences.<\/strong> The key word here is <strong>ambition<\/strong>, and I could see it in the face of everyone I interacted with. Ambition is one of the prerequisites for <em>effective<\/em> action. There are many times where the <em>desire for exception experience<\/em> is expressed, but when the ambition is lacking there just i no personal investment driving the action forward.<strong>Expressing the ambition <em>is<\/em> the mission.<\/strong> I think a good team knows that it\u2019s the magic that they\u2019re creating that\u2019s important, and removing barriers to letting the ambition express itself fluidly is one of the prime metrics of a good team. By \u201cexpression\u201d, I mean that ideas and desires are made visible so they can be directly experienced by another person. Another way of putting this: \u201cthe good of the project is greater than the individual interests of the team members\u201d. If this mentality isn\u2019t shared among all team members, you have a broken team.<\/li>\n<li><strong>A great team shares the same ambitions, and reinforces this with every action taken.<\/strong> In the past, I would have evaluated teams by looking at personalities, communication, mutual respect, and other such indicators of a healthy social group. Many such teams are quite pleasant to work with in a social sense, but never quite reach the heights of productivity they imagine. The key indicator may be, for teams I\u2019m interested in working with, is the level of <strong>shared ambition.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been lucky with most of the teams I work with. There&#8217;s definitely a sense of ambition. Right now, I&#8217;m stuck in the cycle of trying to keep it all going.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/edelalon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/ambitiondespair.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2103\" title=\"ambitiondespair\" src=\"https:\/\/edelalon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/ambitiondespair-300x262.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.edelalon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/ambitiondespair-300x262.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.edelalon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/ambitiondespair.jpg 402w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>References:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/davidseah.com\/2010\/07\/finding-ambition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/davidseah.com\/2010\/07\/finding-ambition\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been dragging my feet around for the whole summer to a point where some people were worried about me. 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