Be a Great Boss: The Hill Collection (4 Items)

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Building an Effective Team

From where I sit, I see that managing teams represents an in-

creasingly critical piece of today’s management puzzle. Due to

advances in technology and the move toward globalization, I see

new managers struggling to handle roles involving increasing

complexity and interdependence. For example, running a multi-

functional team of thirty people with varied levels of experience

in a start-up can now be someone’s first managerial job. As

horizontal networks and interfunctional teams take their place

alongside—or even replace—functional and hierarchical organi-

zational structures, managers find themselves managing interde-

pendent, ...