This famous and oft-quoted line, the epitome of good teamwork, comes, as everyone knows, from Alexandre Dumas père’s novel published in 1844, The Three Musketeers.
“Tous pour un, un pour tous.” It is intended as a lifelong bond of loyalty, brotherly love and mutual support between Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D’Artagnan. Through thick and thin.
It’s so often used as a keystone nowadays in teamwork training exercises.
But how difficult it is to realise in the world of today, where team members are changed with such frequency, and where individuals within a team are in practice competing with each other for recognition and preferment.
Teamwork today is for Christmas, not for life.
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