Team Effectiveness
Team Effectiveness: The Hazards of Collaboration
Sunday, July 8th, 2007If competition is “bad,” then collaboration must always be good, right?
Wrong. Pure collaboration is as problematic as pure competition. Each has its purposes. But each, practiced to the exclusion of the other, leads to collapse.
Unabated competition, like a Panzer division rolling over Poland, creates a spirit of over-the-top, scorched-earth absolutism — legitimizing whatever means result [...]
The Team of One
Sunday, May 6th, 2007If teams mustn’t be too big, how small can they be before they stop being teams?
We define a team as being two persons or more. But it may be useful, as you sort through the people available to you, to consider “the team of one.”
People think we’re joking when we talk about teams on one [...]