Learn More: How to Manage a High-Performing Team
Things are changing rapidly in this area because teams have become such an important part of organizational life. Lots of new ideas can be found on the Internet for those willing to search a bit. Go to
Fast Company magazine's Web site and read the article titled
Xtreme Teams."(If that article is unavailable, enter "Teamwork" as a search term at
Fast Company's home page, and find an article giving advice about setting up a high-performance team.)
- What one thing that you learned about high-performing teams was the most surprising to you?
- Which suggestion stands out as the most likely to be useful to managers? Why?
- Were there any suggestions you felt wouldn't be helpful to managers? What were they, and why weren't they helpful?
Check It Out
Groupthink is often seen as a mechanism that makes group decisions more conservative and less likely to be innovative. However, some researchers feel that groupthink can also cause a group to blindly follow an overly-risky proposal. Read an article about groupthink at the
Business Open Library Archive, then answer this question:
- Give an example of a time when a group made a decision that was overly conservative, due to groupthink. Give an example of a time when a group made an overly-risky decision, due to groupthink.
