Five Factors of Team Survival

It’s a familiar refrain in pretty much every business: teams must adapt to survive.

The challenges we face may not resemble shipwrecks or plane crashes, but the human dynamics are strikingly similar. 

Leaders and teams find themselves in places where the map no longer fits the terrain, and where the difference between resilience and collapse depends not on resources alone but on behaviour.

When uncertainty overwhelms, what allows a team to hold together, rather than splinter and stall?