5 tips to build a winning team that can handle anything

Below, Dr. André Martin shares five key insights from his new book, Collective Confidence: The Winning Formula of the World’s Best Teams. André is an organizational psychologist. He has spent his career building and coaching teams—first inside Mars, Target, Google, and Nike, and now with founders, executive teams, and athletes. What’s the Big Idea? Our present moment calls for better, more confident teams. You cannot motivate your way to confidence. Everyone needs to know why they matter. Brilliance must be borrowed so we can see success as possible. And leadership works best when everyone holds a piece of it. Listen to the audio version of this Book Bite—read by André himself—in the Next Big Idea App, or buy the book. 1. The team is the only unit of performance that matters. In August of 2017, Hurricane Harvey flooded Houston. Official rescue systems were overwhelmed within hours, so ordinary people hitched up their fishing boats and went to work. They became known as the Cajun Navy. No hierarchy, no script, nobody in charge. They split the city into sectors, tracked water levels, and reached trapped families through Facebook groups and walkie-talkie apps; within days, they pulle…