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Tools for X-Teams

From Theory to Action

SUPPOSE THAT YOU ARE A MANAGER charged with creating a team. It might be a product development team, a research team, a sales team, a manufacturing team, a problem-solving team, a committee or task force, or even a top management team. What, exactly, are the tools you would need to craft a high-performing X-team? What would you need to do to jump-start the team’s work and enable it to engage in the external activity and extreme execution needed to succeed? What would best help a team move through the phases of exploration, exploitation, and exportation? In short, how can you facilitate a team’s ability to engage in distributed leadership in action, pulling together the various resources inside and ...

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