Chris Reese of the Cirrus Business Group spoke at the noon meeting of the Rotary Club of Lawrenceville on March 3. He works with businesses throughout the world to turn organizations around and help with their organizational development. He emphasized the advantages of a team structure where the outcomes are more than the sum of the individual parts and asserted that companies that are leaders are able to adapt and innovate. He went over the four stages of team development: forming, storming, norming, and performing. To develop highly effective teams he proposed the following commitments: 1. create an environment of trust, 2. understand and embrace healthy conflict, 3. seek true commitment, 4. embrace accountability, and 5. focus on the result.