5 Rx’s for Team Ills

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How do you create a committed, high-performance team when so few ever achieve something greater than the sum of their parts? That’s the question a new book addresses based on insights drawn from more than 100 teams. Here, the authors describe the five biggest teamwork ills — and prescriptions to help you avoid them.

The complexity of today’s world — shaped by rapidly accelerating technological, economic, and cultural trends — demands that organizations seek out the synergistic potential of teams. But too often what they deliver is a lot of talk and little accountability.

This is the issue that led Mario Moussa, Ph.D., Madeline Boyer and Derek Newberry, Ph.D. to write their new book, Committed Teams: Three Steps to Inspiring Passion and Performance. Based on research from Wharton’s Executive Development Program, Committed Teams is a practical guide that shows how to break through the common barriers to collaboration and create a high-performing team.

The book draws its insights from an intensive two-week simulation during which executive-level participants ran complex and highly realistic global businesses. Dr. Moussa, Boyer and Dr. Newberry observed more than 100 teams collaborating and competing for more than 100 combined simulation years in this intense environment. It led to fundamental insights about teamwork — what usually goes wrong, what frequently goes right, and…

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