Teamwork in the workplace can be difficult. Teams at work often consist of a variety of conflicting personalities and styles. Getting to a point in which a team can collaborate and work in harmony can be a difficult task for a leader and takes time.
I love the following metaphor on teamwork from Steve Jobs I recently found.
He tells the story of a widowed man he had gotten to know in his eighties who lived up the street from him when he was a young boy...