Driving Results Through Social Networks: How Top Organizations Leverage Networks for Performance and Growth

Chapter 6. DELIVERING RESULTS THROUGH PROJECT-BASED NETWORKS

Although teams appear to be an easy solution for leaders to apply to projects, too often ad hoc or large-scale implementation of teams creates hidden and excessive costs of collaboration, lengthy decision cycles, and diffusion of effort and focus.^[28] A fundamental problem is that most organizations follow advice on team effectiveness from fifteen or so years ago, when people had the luxury of being able to commit their efforts to one team. With sufficient time to focus on team development activities, following traditional advice on team formation,^[29] leadership and roles,^[30] group process,^[31] and organizational design^[32] can yield effective groups. Unfortunately, this reality no ...