Team: Getting Things Done with Others

Confidence in one another is the foundation of a functional organization. We are a team not a family and as with all high performance teams, to have any hope of winning we have to be able to coordinate effectively and move in unison. Because of the interdependencies of our work, each team member must be able to have confidence that every other team... See more

Of course, their work is not over. It never is. Like a marriage, it requires ongoing attention and effort: maintaining a cohesive team, revisiting the answers to the six questions, overcommunicating and reinforcing them. But leaders in healthy organizations rarely lament having to invest time and energy in that effort. In fact, they almost always c

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“Research consistently shows that teams underperform, despite all the extra resources they have,” he says. “That’s because problems with coordination and motivation typically chip away at the benefits of collaboration.” Hackman’s research describes five conditions that increase a team’s odds of success: having a real team (one with clear boundaries

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