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You know, it's interesting about the teamwork. I recently delivered a graduation address at Seton Hall University for the graduate school students, and one of the things I had mentioned to them was it wasn't what you learned during the program, it's how you learned. And what you have is when people learn how to learn together, which is what gives you that agility, that you're talking about. It's pretty remarkable. And actually, what made them so successful as a learning team as they went through the whole program together will continue to make them successful when they lead teams or are parts of teams, you know, at their own organizations. And it's really employing the same 5 factors that we talked about in the book. It's, you know, surround yourself with really great people. Make sure that you've got a safe environment, as you talked about, where people can be vulnerable, they trust one another. Third, that you've got leadership. Preferably servant leadership, where that leader is bringing those people together and creating those relationships that can be so powerful and help build trust over time. You know, fourth, of course, is this notion of having to create a valuable interaction and how critical that can be. It's one thing to give someone emotional safety. It's another thing to make them feel intellectually that there's a process for getting to the heart of the matter that can truly help them and help their business. And finally, it really becomes that whole culture of accountability, right? I mean, the idea that it isn't so much what the leader expects from the team, it's what the team begins to expect from one another.