The Leader's Guide to Storytelling: Mastering the Art and Discipline of Business Narrative, Revised and Updated

7.1. HIGH-PERFORMANCE TEAMS

With the emergence of communities as an important organizational arrangement, writers have been at pains to point out that communities differ from teams.^[] Whereas a team typically has a time-bound, predefined operational objective, with commitments to produce some product or service, a community often has no such time-bound objective. The essence of a community is the members' personal investment in an area of shared interest. Whereas a team is focused on accomplishing a task, a community is generally focused on learning more about the subject of common interest. Whereas members of a team are connected by interdependent tasks and values, members of a community in an organizational setting are usually connected by ...