Description
Discover the updated edition of X-Teams, an essential guide for modern organizations striving for innovation and success in an ever-evolving marketplace. With a new preface and valuable insights, this book, authored by Deborah Ancona and Henrik Bresman, presents a groundbreaking externally focused team model that transcends traditional teamwork dynamics. Are you struggling with creativity and adaptability in your team? This comprehensive resource dives deeply into the concept of x-teams, addressing common pitfalls that arise when focusing too much on internal cohesion. Learn how to enhance your team's performance by connecting with the external environment to drive innovation forward.
Inside this updated version, you’ll find practical tools and new research drawn from leading organizations like Microsoft and Takeda, equipping you with strategies to:
- Build adaptable teams that respond effectively to market and technological shifts
- Shift quickly from idea generation to execution and implementation throughout your organization
- Cultivate distributed leadership to enhance collaboration and information flow
Perfect for leaders, managers, and team members eager to break through conventional barriers, X-Teams empowers you to unleash your team's creative potential and maintain competitive edge. Enhance your team's capabilities in cultivating innovation with this indispensable resource. Order your copy today to reap the benefits of improved teamwork and organizational success.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781647824761
Format: Cloth over boards
Year: 2023
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781647824761
Format: Cloth over boards
Year: 2023
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
Description:
An essential work on teams — now updated with new research and tools and a new preface — X-Teams shows how an externally focused team model is the key to fuelling innovation and your organisation's success.
You build a team around top-notch talent. The team members work well together; they're committed to the mission and are highly motivated to perform. Yet the results are disappointing. You're not seeing creativity and flexibility. You're not getting breakthrough ideas.
"Good" teams build camaraderie, confidence in their abilities, and a solid process for working together. But these internal dynamics—while positive in themselves—can create a wall between the team and the outside world. And that wall can prevent the team from adapting to change and delivering value to the organisation.
In this updated, streamlined edition, with a new preface and practical tools, Deborah Ancona and Henrik Bresman describe an externally focused team model—the x-team—that is even more relevant today than when it was first introduced. With their distinctively flexible membership and leadership structure, x-teams continuously reach outward to fuel the innovation process.
With new examples and research from organisations such as Microsoft, Takeda, and the Museum of Modern Art, Ancona and Bresman show you how to build x-teams that:
Keep pace with shifts in markets, technologies, cultures, and your competition
Innovate by moving quickly from generating ideas to executing and diffusing them throughout your organisation
Employ "distributed leadership" to unlock crucial information
Inside this updated version, you’ll find practical tools and new research drawn from leading organizations like Microsoft and Takeda, equipping you with strategies to:
- Build adaptable teams that respond effectively to market and technological shifts
- Shift quickly from idea generation to execution and implementation throughout your organization
- Cultivate distributed leadership to enhance collaboration and information flow
Perfect for leaders, managers, and team members eager to break through conventional barriers, X-Teams empowers you to unleash your team's creative potential and maintain competitive edge. Enhance your team's capabilities in cultivating innovation with this indispensable resource. Order your copy today to reap the benefits of improved teamwork and organizational success.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781647824761
Format: Cloth over boards
Year: 2023
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781647824761
Format: Cloth over boards
Year: 2023
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
Description:
An essential work on teams — now updated with new research and tools and a new preface — X-Teams shows how an externally focused team model is the key to fuelling innovation and your organisation's success.
You build a team around top-notch talent. The team members work well together; they're committed to the mission and are highly motivated to perform. Yet the results are disappointing. You're not seeing creativity and flexibility. You're not getting breakthrough ideas.
"Good" teams build camaraderie, confidence in their abilities, and a solid process for working together. But these internal dynamics—while positive in themselves—can create a wall between the team and the outside world. And that wall can prevent the team from adapting to change and delivering value to the organisation.
In this updated, streamlined edition, with a new preface and practical tools, Deborah Ancona and Henrik Bresman describe an externally focused team model—the x-team—that is even more relevant today than when it was first introduced. With their distinctively flexible membership and leadership structure, x-teams continuously reach outward to fuel the innovation process.
With new examples and research from organisations such as Microsoft, Takeda, and the Museum of Modern Art, Ancona and Bresman show you how to build x-teams that:
Keep pace with shifts in markets, technologies, cultures, and your competition
Innovate by moving quickly from generating ideas to executing and diffusing them throughout your organisation
Employ "distributed leadership" to unlock crucial information