Preface

When I first came to the Kellogg Graduate School of Management in 1995, there were only a small number of course offerings on group dynamics and teamwork. Sheer demand for more teamwork led to the development of a 3-day team-building program for executives. In this program, leading scholars—Deborah Gruenfeld, Dave Messick, Keith Murnighan, Brian Uzzi, and I—provide the latest team-building and management principles to managers and executives from different industries all over the globe. The participants are always as surprised as we are to see the commonality of concerns and interests regarding their teams. Most of the participants were hungry for a book that would pull together the basic and cutting-edge concepts they learned from the ...

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