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Important To Me

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ME: Is being a good team player important to you?
HIM: I believe being a team player involves acting in the best interest of the company, while maintaining a stake in your own best interest and career. But in the fast-paced world of Information Technology and Managed Services being a team player is crucial for many reasons. To me, being a team player is important because it creates synergy where the sum is ultimately greater than the parts, and this helps to support a more empowered way of working, removing constraints which may prevent someone doing their job properly. For my company this has also helped to promote flatter and leaner structure, with less hierarchy.
ME: That’s great, is there anything else you find important about being a …show more content…

I was fortunate to have some great coaches throughout my time in college who bestowed some great leadership traits upon me, as well as taught me what being a true team player meant. That self-sacrifice for the betterment of the team was also the more noble choice above selfishness. But ultimately my Parents are the reason I am who I am today. They taught me about hard work and determination from an early age which lead me into the life that has taught me the virtues of teamwork and into a rather prosperous life overall. So, I would have to say my Parents were and still are the greatest impact on me being a good team player.
ME: I feel the same way about my parents, and baseball was my sport so I understand what you mean about being backed by good coaching staffs. All that being said, how important do you feel being a good team player is on your …show more content…

Once we got the company rolling and started taking on clients my friend quickly realized that his overhead was much more than he had intended for it to be this early on. And ultimately if we didn’t start taking on revenue quickly the boat was going to sink at harbor so to speak. To help with this I offered to work for a stake in the company and cut my normal salary down to almost nothing until we got the company back above water. This enabled him to bring on some lower level employees to help with the day to day operations and let us focus on building the business further and gathering more clientele. We took the company from a 150k startup to a little over 5 million in yearly revenue in a little over 3 years. But my sacrifice for the team which caused me tons of headaches and months of living on a budget ultimately payed me out very nicely when we were acquired in our fourth year of operations by the company You and I both work for

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