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The true meaning of team
During the fall, when you see Geese heading south for the winter flying along in V formation,
you might consider what science has discovered about why they fly that way: As each bird flaps
its wings, it creates an uplift for the bird immediately following. By flying in V formation,
the whole flock adds at least 71% greater flying range than if each bird flew on its own.
 People who share a common direction and sense of community can get where they
 are going more
quickly and easily because they are traveling on the thrust of one another.
When a goose falls out of formation, it suddenly feels the drag and resistance of trying to
go it alone and quickly gets back into formation to take advantage of the lifting power of the
bird immediately in front of it.
If we have as much sense as a goose, we will stay in formation with those who are headed the
same way we are.
When the lead goose gets tired it rotates back into the wing formation and another goose flies
in the point position.
It’s sensible to take turns with demanding jobs & leadership. People (or geese flying south)
are interdependent on
each other's skills, capabilities, gifts, talents & resources.
Geese honk from behind to encourage those up front to keep up their speed.
We need to make sure our honking is encouraging. The power of encouragement is the quality of
honking we seek.
Finally...and this is important...when a goose gets sick or is wounded by gunshots, and falls
out of formation, two other geese fall out with that goose and follow it down to lend help and
protection. They stay with the fallen goose until it is able to fly, or until it dies; and only
then do they launch out on their own, or with another formation, to catch up with their group.
If we have the sense of a goose, we will stand by each other like that!!!
- author unknown
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