Why Teams?
To understand how we can establish the necessary environment for successful teams, we must first answer two basic questions.
What is the reason for moving to a team approach?
What is the primary purpose or function of a team?
To answer the first question we have to examine the environment from which the team concept emerged.
Most of our companies were originally structured as functional hierarchies. All of the thinking was done at the top, and direction flowed down through functional chains of command to people actually performing tasks that contributed to the production of a product or service. Project management existed only as the byproduct of the general management of the business. As the business grew, a need developed to focus ...
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