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High-Performance Teams: The Katzenbach-Smith Collection (2 Books)
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High-Performance Teams: The Katzenbach-Smith Collection (2 Books)

by Jon R. Katzenbach, Douglas K. Smith
September 2016
Intermediate to advanced
376 pages
8h 42m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
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Part One

Understanding Teams

FIGURE I-1

Focusing on team basics

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TEAMS OUTPERFORM INDIVIDUALS acting alone or in larger organizational groupings, especially when performance requires multiple skills, judgments, and experiences. Most people recognize the capabilities of teams; most have the common sense to make teams work. Nevertheless, most people overlook team opportunities for themselves.

Confusion about what makes teams perform explains only part of this pattern of missed opportunity. More is explained by a natural resistance to moving beyond individual roles and accountability. We do not easily take responsibility for the performance of ...

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