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…this overlap and redundancy – these inefficiencies – are precisely what imbues teams with high-level adaptability and efficacy. Great teams are less like ‘awesome machines’ than awesome organisms.
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Teams… can easily devolve into a ‘bumper sticker solution’ – rhetoric parading as real transformation
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…the implementation of teams often leads to leaps in productivity as well as improvements in morale.
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Teams can bring a measure of adaptability to previously rigid organizations. But these performance improvements have a ceiling as long as adaptable traits are limited to the team.
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…the very traits that make teams great can often work to prevent their coherence into a broader whole
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…the magic of teams is a double-edged sword once organizations get big: some of the same traits that make an adaptable team great can make it incompatible with the structure it serves.
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The issue is not that teams never work, but that team dynamics are powerful but delicate, and expansion is a surefire way to break them.
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Functioning safely in an interdependent environment requires that every team possess a holistic understanding of the interaction between all the moving parts. Everyone has to see the system in its entirety for the plan to work.
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purpose affirms trust, trust affirms purpose, and together they forge individuals into a working team.
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Working together always works. It always works. Everybody has to be on the team. They have to be interdependent with one another. – Alan Mulally
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