Leadership

I've been involved on some level with quite a few non-profit organizations and they've all struggled in some form.  In thinking about core teams/leadership and sustainability maybe the difficulties can be traced to how the teams were developed.  Passion is good and necessary however the ability for real leadership is difficult to achieve.  

Of personalities and abilities what is the right mix?  Certainly we want people who can do the things necessary but the how (personality) is also important.  For building our own teams to work on projects we want to maximize the abilities of what each person has to offer and take care that one personality does not seriously inhibit anothers.

Patrick Lencioni has written an easy (and cheap) read on leadership: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team.
It discusses what makes teams work (not work).

They are:  (Copyright laws aside)
5: Absence of Trust ---Invulnerability
4: Fear of Conflict --- Artificial Harmony
3: Lack of Commitment ---Ambiguity
2: Avoidance of Accountability---Low standards
1: Inattention to Results---Status and Ego

Building our team is probably the most important thing we do in relation to our ventures and since our ventures are very personal we certainly want to project the right image.  What happens (organizationally) internally affects it externally just like what we feed and hydrate our body with affects our skin.