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The March Madness phenomena, has a lot to teach about creating effective teamwork for the entrepreneur. Here we’ll explore several key aspects of how effective teamwork produces winning results.

The other day my friend Louis Agudo was speaking about building teams that win. He mentioned March Madness and how so often teams that are basketball nobodies can often be propelled into the winners circle.

For instance, who ever heard of Butler University? Not many people, yet in both 2010 and 2011 Butler’s men’s basketball team made it to the final NCAA championship. They are the only team in history to make it to the final four while not being a number 1 or 2 seed. The fact that they made it to the final game can only be attributed to one thing: EFFECTIVE TEAMWORK.

How Do You Build Winning Teams?

You’ve hear the old adage “There Is No I In TEAM”. While the teams that make it to the Sweet Sixteen round or the final four have loads of talent, basketball is not an individual sport. They do it on a team effort. What kind of effort?

They Have A Plan

You have to have an overarching strategy as to how you will approach your business. Be very, very clear in your plan. You have to know: Who is your market? How will you address the needs of that market? What will be the primary ways you communicate to your market?

The American dilemma of training our competitors is heating up but one industry has invented a solution. Dateline; 11/7/2011, CNBC’s Squawk Box has Barry Sternlicht, Chariman and CEO of Starwood Capital as a guest host. The topic is “what the heck is wrong with our economy and the utter mismanagement by government and the peddling of class warfare” .  A popular theme lately.

The training the competition part of the theme has been broadcast by business persons and politicians across the spectrum for some time now. Of course each is trying to fortify their own particular bias and position but there is a real truth to the premise. The argument goes like this: we issue student visa’s to tens of thousands of students from around the world to come and attend our universities because they (Universities) are the finest in the world.

Many of these students are very bright, entrepreneurial and would love to stay and make America their home. However we make them return to their home country where they are employed by companies that are in direct competition with American companies. We train the Competition, and we train them well. Especially in the engineering and sciences.

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Based on new evidence culled from brain scan studies and wide reaching survey of people’s religious and spiritual experiences, and the author’s analysis of adult drawings of God these scientists have put forth a simple daily exercise that can literally change your brain and therefore change your life.

Their first of a kind book How God Changes Your Brain is not only a revolutionary scientific work, but also a practical guide for people to enhance their physical and emotional health.

How would your annual, obligatory “what I’m thankful for” list change in substance or spirit if you were smacked in the face with a dose of reality? It’s that time of the year to take inventory. Here’s how I learned the hard way.

We have a tradition at Thanksgiving; like many families do; of going around the diner table and telling what we’re thankful for. It can be a bit tedious at times, and sometimes even shallow as cousin Bart struggles to come up with something new other than “I’m thankful for my brother and sister, and fluffy the cat and …..blah, blah, blah. Sometimes it’s humorous and frightfully honest as when the 7 year old says