
Extreme Teaming
Lessons in Complex, Cross-Sector Leadership
Emerald Publishing Limited
Published on 26. September 2017
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-1-78635-450-1 (ISBN)
Description
Today's global enterprises increasingly involve collaborative work by teams of experts operating across different professions, organizations, and industries. Extreme Teaming provides new insights into the world of complex, cross industry projects and the ways they must be managed.
Leading experts Amy Edmondson and Jean-Francois Harvey analyze contemporary cases that expose the complex demands of cross-boundary collaboration on management, and inform our understanding of teams. Containing powerful insights and practical guidelines that allow managers to bridge professional divides and organizational boundaries in order to work together effectively, this is a new exploration of the challenges involved in today's global enterprises.
The authors demonstrate that the work done in the modern organization is less and less about looking inward and creating strong teams inside the company, and more about teaming across boundaries - that often are in flux.
Extreme Teaming is a must-read book for all courses related to leading open innovation; teamwork and collaboration; project management; and cross-boundary work.
Leading experts Amy Edmondson and Jean-Francois Harvey analyze contemporary cases that expose the complex demands of cross-boundary collaboration on management, and inform our understanding of teams. Containing powerful insights and practical guidelines that allow managers to bridge professional divides and organizational boundaries in order to work together effectively, this is a new exploration of the challenges involved in today's global enterprises.
The authors demonstrate that the work done in the modern organization is less and less about looking inward and creating strong teams inside the company, and more about teaming across boundaries - that often are in flux.
Extreme Teaming is a must-read book for all courses related to leading open innovation; teamwork and collaboration; project management; and cross-boundary work.
Reviews / Votes
Viewing teaming as a process, the authors describe project teams that cross disciplinary, organizational, and industry boundaries to innovate. They contend that leadership is key to this extreme type of teaming and present qualitative research to understand the leadership functions allowing for success in these challenging situations. They consider how diverse groups of people collaborate to accomplish challenging innovation goals, requiring them to master new content, build new relationships, and integrate their ideas and expertise to produce high-value output, first discussing the need for extreme teaming, the main team leadership theories and the need for a taxonomy centered on the extreme teaming context, and team development and team diversity. They then present their findings from a multiyear study of various industries, to enumerate four interdependent leadership functions fostering extreme teaming and innovation results: building an engaging vision, cultivating psychological safety, developing shared mental models, and empowering agile execution. They end with a section on the implications of the findings and a model of the four functions. -- Annotation (c)2017 * (protoview.com) *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Bingley
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
482 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78635-450-1 (9781786354501)
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E-Book
09/2017
1st Edition
Emerald Publishing Limited
€40.99
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Persons
Amy C. Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School.
Jean-Francois Harvey is Assistant Professor in the Department of Entrepreneurship & Innovation at HEC, Montreal.
Jean-Francois Harvey is Assistant Professor in the Department of Entrepreneurship & Innovation at HEC, Montreal.
Author
Harvard Business School, USA
HEC Montreal, Canada
Foreword
Content
Foreword Introduction
Part I: Trends Giving Rise to Extreme Teaming
1. Why Extreme Teaming Matters
2. Leading Teams and Teaming
3. The Challenges of Extreme Teaming
Part II: Four Leadership Functions that Enable Extreme Teaming
4. Build an Engaging Vision
5. Cultivate Psychological Safety
6. Develop Shared Mental Models
7. Empower Agile Execution
Part III: Looking Back and Moving Forward
8. A Model of Leadership for Extreme Teaming
9. Directions for Future Research and Practice
References
Part I: Trends Giving Rise to Extreme Teaming
1. Why Extreme Teaming Matters
2. Leading Teams and Teaming
3. The Challenges of Extreme Teaming
Part II: Four Leadership Functions that Enable Extreme Teaming
4. Build an Engaging Vision
5. Cultivate Psychological Safety
6. Develop Shared Mental Models
7. Empower Agile Execution
Part III: Looking Back and Moving Forward
8. A Model of Leadership for Extreme Teaming
9. Directions for Future Research and Practice
References