Last week, we presented some rather dismal statistics regarding team breakups. Today, we present the good news – team breakups can be prevented. The fact is that most team breakups result from one of two issues – lack of character and/or financial mismanagement. Examples of the both issues have filled the news last year in almost every arena of life.

Character issues also tend to fall into two areas – sex and what I call the “jerk factor.” I think the first is obvious to everyone. The second describes the personality of a person who constantly alienates practically everyone around him. (While I would consider greed a character problem, it doesn’t necessarilyy cause team breakups unless it is combined with other financial mismanagement reasons.)

I sincerely hope that you will seek to be proactive in your administration– choosing wisely team members who have unquestionable integrity and living up to that characteristic for your self as well. Posted by Jim Wrenn, January 14, 2010, blogger@itworks-inc.com