Fast Company has a great article with insights from industry leaders on what makes a ‘good team’. In an era of constant real-time collaboration, hierarchical flattening of corporations, and matrix managment effective teamwork is essential.
My favorite section is from Michael Schrage, codirector of the MIT Media Labs eMarkets Initiative. Here’s a blurb:
“The best managers get their people to interact in creative ways.
How do they do that? It takes shared space to create shared understandings. Shared space could be a model or a prototype of a proposed new product.
It could be the mock-up of a Web site. What gives a conversation weight, dimension, and relevance is having a shared space where people’s ideas can play out in front of one another. The Net is the greatest medium for shared space ever invented!
The point is that new kinds of shared space allow new kinds of collaboration and creativity to take place. These spaces let people seriously play. Isn’t that what teams and teamwork should really be about?” — Michael Schrage
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