# teamwork
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31:26It's not a one-player game and the P in protectionLeanne Elliott: Yeah Steve Kemish: Grow as individuals. We must invest. And P is for protection. That's making sure we've got a rainy day or a rainy month or a rainy year fund the best we can. So I'm not advocating just EP 275 · 12 Feb 2026·interview· 31:26–34:0827:56Ego, ideas, and disagree in the room, commit outside the roomAl Elliott: What about the ego? Like, both of you are excellent at what you do. Both of you, like you say, that you sort of like change a little bit and you excel at one part of the business and then you excel at creativEP 271 · 29 Jan 2026·panel interview· 27:56–32:3316:10Al's pick: James Hawkins on autonomous teamsLeanne Elliott: Yeah Al Elliott: You'll get feedback from the team afterwards being like, hey, why did you build this? It seems weird or dumb. Most of the time it won't though. And they're like, cool, let's just— we can EP 261 · 25 Dec 2025·other· 16:10–17:151:49Being in the team: role clarity and standing outLeanne Elliott: This part is more about being in the team. So how you get clear on what your job actually is, how you stand out for the right reasons without burning yourself out, and why good managers need people aroundEP 230 · 9 Sept 2025·other· 1:49–4:5027:59Task cohesion and building systems that workLeanne Elliott: What do I do to make Al's job easier? If we can build in the systems and the processes that mean that task cohesion is really strong, then that means that over time, we're going to build team cohesion as EP 224 · 19 Aug 2025·other· 27:59–35:0418:57Not all brilliant people are natural team playersSteve Roest: I mean, I'd even go further, is like, we have scientists, we have tech engineers, and then we have other people, if that makes sense. So it's not just tech sales. We have a whole scientific group as well. SoEP 213 · 10 Jul 2025·interview· 18:57–23:2814:37Story 3: What great teams actually do differentlyLeanne Elliott: I saw a study this week. It's a study from 20— is it '22 or '24? Maybe 2022. But it was new to me and I was very, very excited by the results. A study of 1 million employees found that one thing that greaEP 190 · 22 Apr 2025·news roundup· 14:37–22:4024:36The power of social connectionBruce Daisley: Yeah, the notion that we draw strength from groups is, you know, even though it's really well known, we don't really explore it. And, you know, in the medical community, for example, if you're hospitalisedEP 162 · 14 Jan 2025·interview· 24:36–29:5830:14The team behind the superstarJon Smith: And I had a wonderful, wonderful man called Greg Clough in my life, who sadly is no longer with us. And he was my COO, and he was on my right shoulder and my left shoulder. And I was like a big elephant, just EP 91 · 18 Apr 2024·interview· 30:14–32:3345:24Clip 12 — Oliver Yonchev: teams in smaller cohortsAl Elliott: So my last clip is from Oliver Yonchev, episode 38. 38, I think. Yep, episode 38. Um, if you've not heard of Oliver, then you've definitely heard of his business partner, which is Stephen Bartlett, who's got EP 52 · 17 Aug 2023·other· 45:24–47:0717:14High Performance in Sport vs. WorkBernard Brogan: It was a story around the sense of team. And Pep Talks' real USP is about focusing on the team and the manager, the 2 conduits to culture, that why you want to stay, why you want to go through the wall foEP 48 · 20 Jul 2023·interview· 17:14–21:230:33What the best teams have in commonAl Elliott: Nice. Check out hopspot.com, the agentic customer platform for growing businesses Stephan Wiedner: The best teams had the highest degree of psychological safety, and the worst had the lowest level of psycholoEP 15 · 6 Dec 2022·interview· 0:33–3:12
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