Is it wrong if the best player is not a team player?

Teamwork

15 minutes reading

Although I'm far from the football world, news has reached me that Christiano Ronaldo, the 37-year-old six-time Ballon d'Or star, has had some serious transfer problems over the last few years and it's not primarily because of his age or his price (salary).

As an owner, I naturally strive to ensure that my team as many high-calibre colleagues as possible. Individual motivations also tend - fortunately - towards greater knowledge and better performance, which inevitably lead to a greater demand for pay.

I often hear that everyone knows football and the game is played on goal.

In practice, however, high and sustained performance in a team leads to a number of problems.Perhaps the most striking thing for the team is when a player who puts success above all other considerations, and who is really excelling, hinders the development of the rest of the team, leading to high turnover. Sure, the goal has to be scored, but can one man take the field against 11 others?

The owner, the decision-maker, if he looks only at individual performance, will find it very difficult to part with a team player who scores goals.

In my more than 20 years as an entrepreneur, I've had to deal with a lot of disappointment after the best player left the team. Because then it became clear how we actually stand in terms of knowledge and performance.

The problem was not really caused by the shortcomings of the team members, but by the interest-oriented thinking of the leader and the best player.

If the ratios of knowledge, attitude and performance within a team are upset and this state of affairs persists, it will inevitably lead to a distortion in the life of the company.

No excellent players come because they are not given the space to prove themselves. The ones who stay in the team don't want to prove themselves because they won't be noticed and their skills are limited.This leads to a lack of development and a lack of success because of dominance. Although success seems to come, at a certain point a relapse is inevitable.

The solution, as I see it, is that those who are successful in the team must help those who are less successful. And the less successful ones have to want to improve.

And if you want to play football on your own, even if you are really good, you have to let him go.

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