I have had the blessing to spend my career working with talented people. We created great solutions pushing the frontier with emerging tools, techniques, and standards. My experiences have shown me how good teams are composed. This boils down to valued people with valued purpose. Valued people are recognized and utilized for their expertise, strengths, and passions. These characteristics need to be discovered and listening is a good way to do it. Empowerment and trust need to follow; meaning, let the expert or experts in the case of hierarchy solve the problem. This acknowledges and confirms their value; otherwise, you are doing their job for them and they aren’t really needed or at least that is how they may feel. Purpose can be tricky to define, in my own experience it has often been only a small component of the company’s outer lying mission. Personally, I have latched on to the purpose of “solving the puzzle” or problem. It motivates me, it keeps me up at night,...