This document discusses how to manage teams to excel. It identifies several reasons why teams fail, such as lack of confidence, fear of conflict, lack of accountability, low commitment levels, and not focusing on results. It then provides strategies for overcoming each of these challenges, such as building confidence through vulnerability, promoting productive conflict over destructive fighting, establishing accountability through peer reviews and recognition, gaining clear goals and buy-in, fostering interdependence, and rewarding actions that promote results. The key is for the team leader to set the tone that the team is results-driven while also recognizing human faults.