Team-building

…..it’s actually plain and simple:  We want builder-uppers on our team, not tearer-downers.  We want uniters, not dividers.  We want people who support their teammates, not undermine them.  We want luscious apples, not rotten ones that contaminate and toxify everything around them. We want good teammates, not shitty ones.  So how do you know if someone is a good teammate?  Quite simple, actually.  Does a person make you feel comfortable when they’re around…..or do they put you on edge?  Do they open their arms to you whenever you’re right…..or merely point an accusatory finger in your direction on those occasions when you are wrong?  Do they galvanize…..or do they habitually rip asunder?  Do they build bridges…..or build walls?  Bad teammates are a malignancy on any team; their negativity and unsavory influence spreads insidiously and ultimately rips a group apart at the seams.  Good teammates uplift their colleague’s spirits; bad teammates work capriciously, albeit maybe not always intentionally, to drag them down.  If you can definitively identify a bad teammate on your cohort—And don’t get me wrong here; it isn’t always as easy as it sounds!!—then kick those assfucks off your squad immediately.  IMMEDIATELY…..did you hear me?!?!  Bad teammates are immanently incorrigible.  Despite periodic protestations of innocence alloyed with feeble apologies—some seemingly sincere, others less so—selfish miscreants can never be permanently reformed.  Irrespective of how much talent they may bring to an endeavor, you are much better off without these proverbial rotten apples contaminating your barrel.  Their continued presence is radioactive and will siphon much-needed energy and enthusiasm from teammates in their immediate vicinity who are otherwise struggling to concentrate and perform well and contribute.  Once again, rid yourself of bad, selfish, finger-pointing colleagues at the first opportunity.  They are a cancer that, left unchecked, will ultimately and most assuredly wind up killing the entire organism—Namely, your carefully constructed team!–regardless of how plainly healthy said organism may have been at the outset…..