Leading Teams

18 Pages Posted: 21 Oct 2008

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James G. Clawson

University of Virginia - Darden School of Business

Greg Bevan

Independent

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Abstract

This note presents an overview of some fundamental characteristics of high-performing teams and suggestions for team leaders on how to manage them. The note summarizes some of the concepts included in the book Organizing Genius (by Warren Bennis and Patricia Biederman), adds both an effective-role framework (task versus process and creativity versus pragmatism) and a brief introduction to small-group life cycles, and ends by encouraging team leaders to be aware of these dimensions as they try to create and manage high-performing teams.

Excerpt

UVA-OB-0655

LEADING TEAMS

While not ignoring or neglecting the individual, we should devote far more thought to teams: to the selection, development, and training of teams, to the qualifications, experience, and achievements of teams, and above all to the psychology, motivation, composition, and behavior of teams.

—Anthony Jay

· An information systems project leader struggles to organize a massive change effort in an urban municipal modernization program involving hundreds of people.

· An account executive for a global financial services firm wonders how to coordinate the efforts of colleagues in eight different cities on behalf of a single global client.

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Keywords: group dynamics, teams

Suggested Citation

Clawson, James G. and Bevan, Greg, Leading Teams. Darden Case No. UVA-OB-0655, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1281269 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1281269

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