1 + 1 = 1/2

The more the merrier. 1 + 1= 3 (that's on purpose).   It takes a village.

All of the above are things we hear and accept. But more often than not, they're not true in business. The more people involved in a creative brainstorm session the less creative it will be. Two people sharing ownership of a responsibility will cloud accountability. It doesn't have to take a lot of people to do something great.

The scariest thing is to be totally accountable for a result. That means you are responsible for success or failure. In baseball, the only athletes that make it as pitchers are the ones who want the ball--they understand that if the team wins or loses, they are the ones who will be held accountable.

In business, as in baseball, the good ones understand this, the all-time greats are the ones who totally embrace it.

Barry LaBov
LaBov & Beyond
www.labov.com