Hello All!
I have the privilege of teaching one course a semester at our local University here in town.
The class is on building effective teams and we use my book as one of the required readings... of course :-)
I had a student come to me a couple of months ago with an "ah ha" moment after reading the first chapter—Be Selfless.
She said, "I now know why my parents divorced." "Why," I asked. She said, "Because my father stopped serving my mother."
Wow, I thought. She is probably right. Service is at the very core of every functional relationship.
The more we serve, the more we care and love those we serve. When we stop serving, we start caring more about our own needs than the needs of others. Selfishness, not selflessness, becomes the foundation of our relationship.
Relationships can't survive on selfishness.
Teams at their very core are about relationships and can't survive on the selfish desires and actions of its teammates.
Selfishness on teams leads to diminishing trust, communication break downs, a lack of commitment to the team's goals and the fading of accountability.
The only way to prevent this is simply to get teammates to serve each other regularly.
It's simple, but powerful.
Try serving others in all of your relationships and watch the amazing impact it makes on that relationship!
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Thanks! Happy Teamwork!
Michael | 
