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Today in the 2nd Test match at Dubai against South Africa, the Pakistani batsmen are not playing bad. Rather, they are on a harakiri mission.

Build the Right Team Behaviors

Even though most management systems focus on individual performance, it’s critical to reward and recognize your team collectively. As a team manager, support the right group behaviors by:
Encouraging collaboration. Talk about your people as a team, not as a set of individuals. Instead of talking about individuals’ contributions, praise the common behaviors that contribute to the team’s overall success.
Evaluating team performance. Every six months or so, take a close look at the group’s progress. Don’t mention individuals in this appraisal but focus on what the team has done—and can do—together.
Using rewards. If you are able, tie a portion of your organization’s discretionary compensation to team performance. If you don’t control the purse strings, try recognizing your team’s hard work in a public way—through a departmental email or even displaying their picture in a common space—or giving them exposure to senior leaders.

Adapted by HBR from “How to Reward Your Stellar Team,” by Amy Gallo.

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.

Dale Carnegie

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Dale Carnegie

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping .

Dale Carnegie

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Dale Carnegie

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Dale Carnegie

“Life is truly a ride. We’re all strapped in and no one can stop it. When the doctor slaps your behind, he’s ripping your ticket and away you go. As you make each passage from youth to adulthood to maturity, sometimes you put your arms up and scream; sometimes you just hang on to that bar in front of you. But the ride is the thing. I think the most you can hope for at the end of life is that your hair’s messed, you’re out of breath, and you didn’t throw up.”

— Jerry Seinfeld

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

Dale Carnegie

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism – and wars.

Dale Carnegie