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since a leader usually establishes them for the group. Like all interactions involving a group of people, both teams and working ...

ing the planning stages of Rockefeller Center can be interpreted as a real team at work. Nine men involved in creating the speci ...

Everyone who worked hard to invest in the team will suffer lost time and dis- appointment and will be more reluctant to try team ...

paid to the team leader. How the leader handles this initial interaction is crit- ical to the team’s success in moving forward, ...

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individual’s personality, reputation, or rank. The attitudes of real team lead- ers reflect the following beliefs: (1) they do n ...

tial team. Team performance requires the team to be decisive, the team to be in control, and the team to be a hero—not the leade ...

The performance purpose of the group is usually established by the leader. Often, in fact, it has been assigned to the leader b ...

found in a working group. However, if the challenge cannot be met by tra- ditional good management practices, if collective work ...

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ary leader calling all the shots. However, the rapidly changing design envi- ronment is presenting many opportunities where a re ...

CHAPTER 216  Virtual Te ams JESSICA LIPNACK JEFFREY STAMPS, Ph.D. Copyright 2002 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Click here ...

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Biomedical, runs clinical trials for major pharmaceutical companies, with 150 people working mainly from home offices. But Parag ...

time. Process rooms are really backstage interactions that can occur in safe places to share private information for the team. T ...

CHAPTER 12 VIRTUAL TEAMS 221 site sides of the globe. But even people who work together in the same place can have problems bein ...

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VIRTUAL TEAM CHALLENGES Some virtual teams Some virtual teams fail. One of the reasons is that there are obvious differ- ences i ...