New Strategies and Structures ImposeNew Demands on Staff and Teams

Clearly, these changes in strategy and structure create new requirements on staff. People and teams must be able to relate to diverse cultures and style, to think interdependently and to plan for ever increasing time-to-market demands as they seek out opportunities to collaborate. In addition, new structures put demands on people and teams to manage multiple bosses, to communicate electronically with people all over the globe and to be flexible and adaptive.

The challenges of teams today are different from those of the recent past. Today, many teams are geographically dispersed. They may also come from different disciplines, departments or even different organizations. We call ...

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