Teams: Tomorrow’s New Performance Lever
Our years of reporting on the technology revolution, and in talking with the most admired leaders and visionaries in business, government and the non-profit world, have convinced us that the future belongs to high-performance units. It’s not enough to focus only on hiring the best and the brightest; it’s even more critical to figure out how to create high-performing teams that are more than the sum of their individual parts. That’s Team Genius. Here we offer four imperatives that every leader must recognize:
First, your teams must be of capable surviving whatever today’s brutal economy throws in their path. Indeed, today’s teams will have to be able to survive on their own, sometimes with little support from headquarters. They will have to take serious risks and make decisions, sometimes existential ones, very quickly.