Developing a High Performing Team

Introduction

What are today’s best practices for finding, developing, and keeping the very best employees? This collection from MIT Sloan Management Review looks at what it takes to build and sustain a strong talent pipeline — one of the biggest challenges facing companies globally today. Here is some of the real-world research and analysis in this collection:

From “Why Learning Is Central to Sustained Innovation”:

• Operational excellence requires cultivating an aptitude for, and an expectation of, continuous improvement within every employee.
• The authors, who are experts in Toyota’s product development system, maintain that “lean product development hinges upon having developers achieve individual mastery as the essential building block for ...