How a Warfighter Mindset Can Help Your Team Thrive

It’s easy to be a happy, motivated member of a team when everything is sunshine, lollipops, and rainbows. It’s when it takes real effort to make the best of the given circumstances that you see what people are made of at the cellular level.

The fiction sections of libraries all over the world are filled with countless volumes of epic tales in which a lone hero saves the day, turns the tide of the battle single-handed, or completes a nigh-impossible quest solo. His courage and skills are unparalleled; he alone made the difference against both time and tide.

However, in the libraries’ history sections, the truth is recorded and reality is captured; these sections are filled with real stories of highly trained and cohesive groups of men striving in unison toward a common goal, no matter how impossible the odds.

War Is a Team Sport

Any leader who has been there can tell you that without question, war is a team sport; the teams that work together will emerge victorious, while the losers end up fertilizing the soil and making the green grass grow. While the stakes in your industry will likely be exponentially lower than actual life and death, the warfighter mindset can help you envision and create a culture inside your organization in which your teams develop and execute their assigned tasks like finely oiled machines.