Stop Winning Alone: How Smart Teams Help Each Other Win | Ep. 10

Collaboration is not a soft skill. It is a survival skill. And according to Ronen Gafni, it is also our most natural one. In episode ten of FreshMinds Podcast, Mitch Simon, Ronen Gafni, and Simcha Gluck dig into one of the most important questions in leadership today: why do individuals keep choosing to win alone when winning together is faster, more fulfilling, and far more sustainable? The answer has less to do with human nature and more to do with the systems we built that quietly punish people for helping each other. In this episode: Why collaboration is our natural state as human beings, not a skill we need to develop from scratch How modern institutions, from schools to corporations, have quietly trained us to compete instead of connect The Messi principle: why the most admired player in the world is now celebrated more for his assists than his goals Why individual KPIs are one of the biggest enemies of team performance What it would look like to measure assists in business the way we measure them in sport How to shift the language of your team from "sell more" to "who are we helping to win?" Why asking "what do you need to win this week?" before every meeting changes everything Ram Dass on what winning teams are really about: we are all just walking each other home How lighting other people's lights makes your world brighter too This is one of the most human conversations in the FreshMinds series. If you lead a team that works harder than it collaborates, this episode is for you. FreshMinds Podcast is hosted by Mitch Simon, leadership coach and retreat facilitator at Simon Leadership Alliance, alongside Ronen Gafni, creator of the FreshBiz business game and TEDx speaker, and Simcha Gluck, co-founder of FreshBiz and co-author of The New Entrepreneurs. Resources and Links: FreshBiz: https://freshbizgame.com/ Mitch Simon (LinkedIn):   / mitchjsimon   Ronen Gafni (LinkedIn):   / ronengafni   Simcha Gluck (LinkedIn):   / simchagluck   Simon Leadership Alliance:   / simon-leadership-alliance   Subscribe, share with your team, and start asking the right questions.