On the other hand, those students playing roles in experiential exercises where they can withhold information, often do so. They plan to involve the worker team… once they (in the role of the management team) have planned what work needs to be done. He cites a 2005 study finding that a group of 27 U.S. MORE >>

The summer issue of California Management Review a couple of years ago contains an article co-authored by myself together with Rob Cross of the University of Virginia, Kate Ehrlich of IBM, and John Helferich of Northeastern University, titled Managing Collaboration: Improving Team Effectiveness through a Network Perspective. Execution teams. MORE >>

'For teams or workgroups to be effective and competitive they must, 1) understand their customers’ requirements and the frequent changes to those requirements, 2) take action. In the rest of this paper I will use the term “team”, to refer to both workgroups and teams.). The leaders of those teams encouraged input and debate. MORE >>

The traditional model of collaborative knowledge is based on the type of knowledge (moving from tangible to intangible, explicit to tacit) and the place of collaboration (moving from the individual to the group to the organization). As a result, their social identity within the group is not at risk. I'd appreciate feedback. R: Right. MORE >>

Putting together a crack team of specialists for a new project? Often, it’s team members’ non-core skills and experience — and their freedom to apply those capabilities to the project — that make the collaboration a real success. Recently, I worked with a new, distributed team on a fairly experimental project. MORE >>