Deborah Ancona

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In Praise of the Incomplete Leader

Have you ever feigned confidence to superiors or reports? Hidden the fact you were confused by the latest business results or blindsided by a competitor's move? If so, you've bought into the myth of the complete...

Tags: Deborah Ancona, Thomas W. Malone, Wanda J. Orlikowski, Peter M., Harvard Business Review, leader, vision, leadership

Articles 2008-05-07

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Join us in the great Intelligence 2debate

Civilised debate is the essence of The Spectator: it is what animated 'the little Committee of Politicks' that Joseph Addison encountered in the St James's Coffee-house and described in the magazine in March 1711. Three centuries on, it is the desire for a cheerful rhetorical punch-up, in print...

Articles 2007-09-15

IMPROVING THE PERFORMANCE OF NEW PRODUCT TEAMS

How a team manages its boundaries can affect its performance and, in turn, the duration of the product development cycle. OVERVIEW: 2007 is Research-Technology Management's 50th year of publication. To mark the occasion each issue reprints one of RTM's six most frequently referenced articles. The articles were identified by N....

Articles 2007-09-01

Thinking outside the team: in today's world where team success depends on innovation and speed, leaders need to take an external approach.(Management Tools)

What accounts for high team performance? When we ask groups of team leaders this question, the usual answers pour out: "top-notch talent," "team members work well together," "clear goals," "members are committed to the mission," "highly motivated to perform" and "trust." While...

Articles 2007-09-01

Knowing how other teams went wrong.(Business)(Business books)

Byline: Jim Pawlak X-teams: How to Build Teams that Lead, Innovate and Succeed" by Deborah Ancona and Henrik Bresman, Harvard Business School Press, $29.95. As individuals, team members are islands of knowledge; as true teammates they are a mass of knowledge....

Articles 2007-07-09

X-TEAMS: How to Build Teams that Lead, Innovate and Succeed

X-TEAMS: How to Build Teams that Lead, Innovate and Succeed; Deborah Ancona and Henrik Bresman; Harvard Business School Press, Boston, MA; 2007; 256 pp., $29.95. The models and theories featured in the team effectiveness best-sellers encourage a team to focus within-on its own process, on the problem at hand, and...

Articles 2007-07-01

Funny girl

Idiot. Idiot. Idiot. How do I get lumbered with this stuff? I'm sitting in a nice cafe on London's King's Road, and I'm eating the hearty breakfast beloved of the condemned yet portly man. Not that anything so very bad is going to happen. Ronni Ancona, the comic actress and...

Articles 2007-06-02

X-Teams: How to Build Teams That Lead, Innovate, and Succeed

X-Teams: How to Build Teams That Lead, Innovate, and Succeed By Deborah Ancona and Henrik Bresman (Harvard Business School Press, 256 pp., $29.95) All too often, teams made up of talented and committed individuals fail miserably. Ostensibly, they do all the right things: They focus on the team's own...

Articles 2007-06-01

Using a simulation to explore the challenges of communicating in a virtual team.

VIRTUAL TEAMS have become an integral part of many organizations because of all increase in corporate restructuring, competition, and globalization (Baker, 2002). Grosse (2002) defined a virtual team as one that conducts its work almost entirely through electronic technology. Virtual team members, who are typically dispersed...

Articles 2004-09-01

"On social capital and organization change"

Editor's Note: Of course, we rarely get real letters to the editors any more. As we like to say out here in California, "that's just so 20th century." Ah, but we do get emails, and as a complement to Elisha Krauss's review of John Kotter's new tome, here...

Articles 2002-09-22

Rethinking teams and collaboration; enter X-teams and networks

This Spring's issue of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan Management Review includes two articles that shed light on one of the great management mysteries of the decade. Why has the team movement of the 1990s failed so dismally in the public and private sector in this new decade? Organizations...

Articles 2002-06-22