CHAPTER 8
Assembling and Managing Project Teams
ONE OF THE GREATEST challenges facing managers seeking to create new growth businesses is assembling and managing teams charged with creating new growth. Leaders have to answer many key questions, for example:
- Should I staff the team with my “best and brightest” or my “diamonds in the rough”?
- Do I need to bring in outsiders?
- What functional representation do I need on the team?
- How should the team interface with the rest of the company?
- How should I interact with the team?
- How much autonomy should the team have?
- To whom should the team report?
The art of team formation and management is seemingly fraught with even more unpredictability than the knottiest technological problems. Consider this ...
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