April 2022
Intermediate to advanced
288 pages
7h 58m
English
Harvard professor J Richard Hackman has studied teams across multiple industries and contexts to define the critical characteristics of effective groups and what separates a real team from a ‘co-acting’ group of people. His ‘five factor’ model, based on his research, sets out a number of attributes that demonstrate the twin needs for both a clear direction and a healthy sense of autonomy:1
Setting good direction for a team means being authoritative and insistent about desired end-states, but being equally insistent about not specifying how the team should go about achieving those end-states.2
Being a real team: Hackman mentions several criteria here including ...
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