Collaborative Intelligence

CHAPTER 10Leading Intelligence Teams

The preceding section of this book explored six conditions that foster work team effectiveness. When those conditions are in place, chances improve that a team will successfully accomplish its mission and, in the process, facilitate learning by individual members and the team as a whole. The implications for team leaders would seem clear: Get your team properly designed and supported, and then do whatever you can to help members take full advantage of their favorable performance circumstances.

So take a moment and reflect on a team you lead or on which you serve. How does that team stand on each of the six conditions? They are summarized below, and shown in checklist form in Figure 10-1.¹

1. The team is a ...