4Building High-Performance Teams and Team Members
The strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack.
—RUDYARD KIPLING
People Drive Product Development Excellence
Your people provide the creativity, energy, and drive that power your product and process development system. Your team is far more important to achieving excellence than any new technology and likely more important than brilliant product ideas. We agree with Ed Catmull, computer scientist and president of Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios, when he wrote, “If you give a great idea to a mediocre team, they’ll screw it up. But if you give a mediocre idea to a great team, they’ll make it work.”1
What makes a great team in product and process development? ...
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