The 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player by John Maxwell

We are taking out team through John Maxwell's book The 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player. These are some excerpts from the book and thoughts we have shared with our team.

#1 Adaptable

If you won’t change for the team, the team may change you.

"Inflexibility is one of the worst human failings. You can learn to check impetuosity, overcome fear with confidence, and laziness with discipline. But for rigidity of mind there is no antidote. It carries the seeds of its own destruction."
Anonymous
"Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape."
Michael McGriff


Teamwork and personal rigidity just don’t mix
1. Teachable

Emotionally Secure

“A person’s age can be determined by the degree of pain he experiences when he comes into contact with a new idea.”
Quincy Jones

2. Creative

3. Service Minded

To become more adaptable …
o Get into the habit of learning
o Reevaluate your role
o Think outside the lines