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The Importance of Teams in any endeavor cannot be over emphasized, Two heads they say are better than one, but a Team effort can be defeated if the Team head do not know where to draw the Line when It comes to certain relationships

There will be a time in your Life where you will have to do what you have never done before and If it is something big you will need Team Work in other to Make it possible

There is a saying that I love so much

If your Dream does not Scare You, then It is not Big Enough

I also added my own Little quote which I believe also holds true

If you can achieve your Dreams alone, then It is not Big Enough

For You to build a great team that understands their roles and positions when it comes to whatever Project, you have to find out that there are three Classes of people that Need to be in Your Team

This is not about Favoritism or exclusion, this is about evaluating the nature of the People you are working with and know what each relationship holds

It is Important for you to Respect and be friends with your team Members, but you should know that there are Levels of Friendship, the following are three levels of relationship that is present in any Organization

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Buddies

You need Buddies if you want to be a great Leader, a buddy is someone you can totally trust with everything. Your buddy is somebody you can be totally open and safe with

Buddies are mostly just one person, but if they are more than one, then you are really lucky. They are the ones who will be ready to go the extra mile with you when others are too tired and Stressed out

Your buddies are the people who are WITH you, whether the going is good or bad. They are the ones who know that thing that you are afraid other people will find out, but they still choose to be with you

You don't get tired of your buddies because you are always real around them, you have no reason to play a certain character in their presence

You buddies are not with you because of Money or Fame, they choose to be with you because they understand who you are and what you carry. It does not matter whether you are rich or poor

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Colleague

Your colleague are not with you, they are with your course or project. You can mistake them for Buddies if you are not careful.

It is the Vision or Cause that attracts colleagues not You. They can be and work with you , but you have to discover why they are with you, and work on that

If a colleague does not see himself getting what he wants from his/her relationship with you, he/she can easily leave and join another group or person, because they were never with you in the first place

The Buddy and Colleague both want the same thing but have different motives. One of them will remain with you no matter what, One of them will be with you even if someone gives them a better offer

You also have to know that you cannot have a Team full of buddies , you have to be able to work with people who are will come and go

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They are more like Scaffolding, when a House is being built, a Scaffolding is built along the walls as the buildings are raised, but when the building is completed, the Scaffolding have to go.

Colleague are more like the transport that helps you reach your destination and you are not supposed to get too attached to their presence

It is just like a Nurse getting angry that an expectant Mother who previously came daily for antenatal that she made friends with , no longer comes to the Hospital everyday after delivering

Colleagues will always be In your Life as far as they need something from you, when they get it or get tired of you they tend to make an exit, it is just something you need to keep in mind

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Cohorts

These are the kind of people who go out with you and fight, they are the kind of people who join you for protests and riots, they are the kind of friends soldiers make when they go to War

They are not WITH you or what you are FOR, they are for what you are AGAINST. They teamed up with you just to help you fight what you are against

When you go out to fight for something and someone joins you, don't think that they are your friends. It may not be their attraction to you that makes them join you, it is mostly their frustration against your Enemy that made them team up with you

The Pharisees and Sadducees were Jewish groups that had different view points about the Law Of Moses, they were bitter enemies for years, but when Jesus Christ came along they teamed up together just to get rid of him

They always teamed up together to ask him tough questions so that they could stir up accusations against him

So you have to be able to know people who are just with you because the fight favour them

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Team Building

No matter what you do in Life you have to be able to recognize these groups of people so that you will be able to work with them. You will also achieve more because you will know what each relationship entails and it will make you work with people of talent whether you like them or not

You will be able to Team up with anyone so that you will be able to achieve what you are meant to achieve, there is nothing wrong with that as far as your know where to draw the line

Telling your secrets to a Cohort will only kill you because when the fight is over, they will use your secret and work against you

Betrayals will decrease if everyone knows the secret behind these three levels of friendship, and know who your Buddies and Cohorts are, because one thing is certain

A Fighter Will Always Fight

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