Together we are Better

I love this time of the year!

I love it when we get this structured moment to reflect on our achievements from the previous year and define our goals for the year to come. It is empowering to realize how much we have accomplished, and it is refreshing to envision the future wonders we plan for the year to come.

But mostly I think this is a brilliant moment to pause and thank our partners to the journey.

Throughout the years I have worked with people and lead teams and I have grown to learn two important things related to our achievements:

The first is the gravity of the team and the power of the community. When we combine the efforts of many people together in the same directions, we can create miracles and lead changes. The most significant ingredient in creating this team success momentum is the sense of belonging - belonging to something bigger than oneself. I used to believe this can be achieved by clarity around our business objectives, while still maintaining a rather reserved version of myself, sharing with my business colleagues only what I considered relevant and needed for these business objectives. But with time, I have realized that In order to feel belonging we seek solidarity before anything else, and this is best created by daring to bring our inner self out front, by exposing who we are inside and showing our human vulnerability.

The second thing I have learned is that most of our accomplishments are not a result of a big frog leap or mega transformation we run over night. Our big achievements are rather the aggregation of continuous, consecutive small steps in the right direction. They may seem small and insignificant, but they bring the color and the spirit to our lives, and eventually when accumulated, they gain the gravity and impact that lead change. People around us do these small steps daily, yet we tend to overlook them while focusing on the way forward.

I pause today to thank each member of my wider team for continually choosing every day to belong to this team, and consistently move forward in the right direction. Each one of you is imperative contributor to the overall puzzle of everything we have been accomplishing.

I am looking forward to yet another splendid year together, because together we are better !