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- Your Company's Secret Change Agents
- The Idea in Brief Some business problems--lackluster performance, escalating costs, interdepartmental conflict--persist no matter how hard companies try to fix them. Why? Most leaders impose top-down change tactics--importing outside experts or "best" practices, which never...
- Articles 2008-02-13
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- Managing Teams - The McGraw-Hill Companies
- A team is a group of individuals with complimentary skills who work collectively towards completion of a specified task. Teamwork develops a synergy between different team members leading to their skill enhancement and organizational development. Working in teams facilitates in enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of organizational systems and processes....
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- Managing Groups And Teams
- Teams give strength to an organization. They help in developing synergy and increasing productivity at the workplace. There are five stages in a team development process viz. forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning. Managing teams is critical business. At every stage of the team development process, the role of the...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- Managing Teams and Six Sigma
- Managing a Six Sigma team is a considerable responsibility. Six Sigma is a team process and requires cooperation at many levels. No one person can manage a Six Sigma project on their own. Just as it is the organization that benefits from Six Sigma, it is the organization that truly...
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- Building Winning Teams
- Building great teams starts with understand what great teamwork means. All too often, people think that a "team player" is someone who fits quietly into a group and keeps out of trouble. But if everyone behaved like that, a team wouldn't work effectively—a flock of sheep may hang together well,...
- Articles 2007-05-01
- Managing Teams
- Teams are one of the basic building blocks of an organization. They facilitate in the operationalization of the organizational strategy. A team is a group of individuals with complimentary skills who work collectively towards completion of a specified task. The paper examines the methodology to build and cultivate effective teams...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- Motivate Teams: Maximize Success
- Motivate Teams; Maximize Success is part of the "Positive Business" series of handbooks designed to be "Inviting" as they set forth concrete strategies. In this volume, author Michael West, director of research at the Afton Business School in the United Kingdom, takes readers through the reasons for teamwork, ways to...
- White papers 2005-01-01
- New Executive: The sum of all the parts ; Winning strategy for Ernst & Young's managing partner is managing teams.(Brief Article)(Company Profile)
- At first, it sounds like Paul T. Bader, Ernst & Young's new managing partner for its New York office, is reading from a management textbook on team building: Put people first and become more flexible as a company. But Mr. Bader isn't just spou...
- Research articles 2000-10-30
- Leading Teams Across Continents
- Until relatively recently, teams had regular face-to-face contact. Now, with globalization and advances in communication technology, it is both possible and efficient to form dispersed international teams whose members can take advantage of their respective localities, time zones, and economic circumstances.Being a member of a dispersed team is a very...
- Articles 2007-10-05
- Managing a Virtual Team
- In today's globally connected world, you may never physically meet important members of your work or project team. While electronic communication can't replicate the chemistry of teams working together in the same place, by making good use of technology and thoughtful communication practices, you can still interact effectively with team...
- Articles 2007-04-20
- Eight Ways to Build Collaborative Teams
- The Idea in Brief To execute major initiatives in your organization--integrating a newly acquired firm, overhauling an IT system--you need complex teams. Such teams' defining characteristics--large, virtual, diverse, and specialized--are crucial for handling daunting projects. Yet these very characteristics can also...
- Articles 2007-11-07
- Running Effective Teams
- Managing remote teams, developing employees, and dealing with turnover all require planning and coordination. Learn how to make your team more efficient in five key areas. High-Stakes Decision Making: The Lessons of Mount Everest Source: Harvard Knowledgebase In 1996, 23 climbers reached the summit of...
- Articles 2007-04-02
- Managers Fret as Virtual Teams Grow with Globalization
- The Find: A huge majority of companies foresee an increasing use of virtual teams in the coming years, and more than a third of managers are worried about the development. The Source: The recent Taking the Pulse: Teams study from the Institute for Corporate Productivity (I4CP). ...
- Blog posts 2008-09-08
- Motivating Team Members
- Organizational success has always depended on delivering results through teamwork. However, with the increasing prevalence of flat, networked, and matrix structures, effective teamwork is becoming even more criticalIn these types of organizational structures, individuals come together—forming teams—for the duration of a project or for the amount of time it takes...
- Articles 2007-10-24
- Managing Multicultural Teams
- If your company does business internationally, you're probably leading teams with members from diverse cultural backgrounds. Those differences can present serious obstacles. For example, some members' lack of fluency in the team's dominant language can lead...
- Articles 2008-02-15
- Creating Cross-Functional Teams
- Most business projects require a wide variety of skills to complete the tasks involved. If you're managing such a project, it's almost axiomatic that you will be directing a group of individuals from different backgrounds: They may be members of your own organization, from other units of your company, or...
- Articles 2007-10-04
- When Teams Can't Decide
- When cross-functional teams have trouble making decisions, leaders blame psychological factors like mistrust or poor communication. But the problem isn't the team's people; it's the decision-making process. Each member has constituencies in the organization. So each...
- Articles 2008-12-10
- Stanford University selects Artesia Technologies' TEAMS software for its Digital Library initiative; Award-winning digital asset management solution being implemented to address challenges in managing petabyte-size digital libraries.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-16 November 2000-Artesia Technologies: Stanford University selects Artesia Technologies' TEAMS software for its Digital Library initiative; Award-winning digital asset management solution being implemented to address challenges in managing petabyte-size digital libraries C1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:16112000 Artesia Technologies...
- Research articles 2000-11-16
- Ten Tools for Remote Teams
- Ten Tools for Remote TeamsTeam Collaboration with Collanos WorkplaceGreat article. It would be nice to see a list of the best collaborative tools available. I know some of them are free, such as Collanos Workplace (www.collanos.com).RE: nullThis is all about technology for working remotly but this not suffiecient for remote...
- Discussion threads 2007-09-27
- Teams Less Effective When Stakes are High
- At Harvard Business School students are increasingly taught the importance of managing and working in teams effectively. The time and market worth of the star lone performer is fast coming to a close in this era of shrinking resources and instant global communications. As a result, academics...
- Blog posts 2009-07-16
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