The process of making a cake illustrates this concept.
To make a delicious cake, the baker blends all the ingredients, till they lose their individuality. The sugar is no longer in its crystalline form, it has disintegrated into tiny, almost invisible particles and adhered to all the flour particles. The oil has lost its individuality and coated itself to all the particles of the flour and sugar. So is the case with all the other ingredients. And when the cake is baked, the ingredients further penetrate into each other and become a totally new entity, the delicious cake.
What if the ingredients do not like to surrender their individual shape and nature?
Think of a cake in which the sugar particles remain in original crunchy form and refuse to blend? Or some blobs of oil remain in some places? The baker would throw out such a cake.
Back to the team. It is the job of the team leader to integrate the performances of the members of the team, till they no longer show their individuality! For this he has to apply just enough heat, not too less or too much, as long as needed, for them to intimately mingle their performance with that of their teammates, each of the players surrendering their individuality. Then the resulting team performance will be as pleasing as that of a delicious cake.
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