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Teams work thanks equally to all of their members, as they all share the same goals, problems, successes and sometimes failures.

As each one of them has a very important role, in the end there can be no good result unless they all work well together. Even if at some points, some of the members might seem to balance the team “weight” towards them, due to special events that might involve them more than the others, in the long run they all have the same contribution.

I like to think of a strong team as an orchestra playing a symphony: each instrumentalist plays his own score, contributing to the beauty and completeness of the whole concert. If any of them would stop playing, the symphony will just not sound right any more.

Let’s take the well-known Canon in D by Johann Pachelbel and see how it sounded if only some of the instruments would have played (the complete track is played by a violin, a cello and a viola).

Here is the violin playing what you might call the main tune. However, you will see later on that this tune sounds so much better when it is accompanied by the other two instruments.

Taken out of context, the cello’s part seems to have no meaning, even though it has a significant contribution to the whole musical piece:

In the end, please take some time to listen to the complete track. If you focus, you will probably be able to isolate each instrument’s part, but most importantly, you will surely be moved by the beauty resulting in their teamwork.

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