X-Teams, Revised and Updated

Preface to the New Edition

Working in small groups and teams has been essential for humans from the beginning of our existence, and it is now more important than ever. While the need for teams has always been there, the exponential changes we live with today are having a dramatic impact. As we write this, the world has been ravaged by a global pandemic and has seen a potpourri of responses, fundamentally changing the way we work. A war is raging in Europe and climate change is intensifying, putting the current world order in question, with implications for organizational life that are hard or impossible to predict. The recent human experience is deeply disorienting, even disturbing. This context presents monumental challenges—and only teams, ...