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Working Together Effectively Before It All Goes Downhill
O'Leary, Michael; Mortensen, Mark; Woolley, AnitaArticle ART-1819-ELeadership and People Management, Service and Operations ManagementMultiple team membership (MTM) is a reality in todays workplace, with high-value employees lending their expertise to a variety of project teams. An estimated 65 percent of knowledge workers in the United States and Europe, for example, engage in MTM to some degree. But what is the effect of MTM on productivity and learning for individuals, teams and, ultimately, organizations? According to the authors, three mediators context switching, tempo...Starting at €8.20
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Capitalizing on Capabilities (Spanish version)
Ulrich, Dave; Smallwood, NormArticle HBS-R0406JLeadership and People Managementtalent, speed, shared mind-set and coherent brand identity, accountability, collaboration, learning, leadership, customer connectivity, strategic unity, innovation, and efficiency. Such companies typically excel in only three of these capabilities while maintaining industry parity in the other areas. Organizations that fall below the norm in any of the 11 are likely candidates for dysfunction and competitive disadvantage. To determine how your c...Starting at €8.20
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What Makes a Team Smarter? More Women (Spanish version)
Woolley, Anita; Malone, Thomas; Berinato, ScottArticle HBS-F1106DLeadership and People ManagementWhen professors Anita Woolley and Thomas Malone studied the factors that increased a group's collective intelligence, they made some surprising discoveries: A team's intelligence, as measured by performance on a range of tasks, had relatively little to do with the individual IQs of its members. But it had a lot to do with the gender of those members.Starting at €8.20
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Building a Leadership Brand
Ulrich, Dave; Smallwood, NormArticle HBS-R0707G-ELeadership and People ManagementThis article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. How do some firms produce a pipeline of consistently excellent managers? Instead of concentrating merely on strengthening the skills of individuals, these companies focus on building a broad organizational leadership capability. It's what Ulrich and Smallwood--co-f...Starting at €8.20
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Cómo pedalear en varios equipos sin perder el equilibrio
O'Leary, Michael; Mortensen, Mark; Woolley, AnitaArticle ART-1819Leadership and People Management, Service and Operations ManagementEl trabajo en múltiples equipos (Multiple team membership, MTM) es una realidad en el actual entorno laboral, en que los empleados de alto valor ponen en práctica sus aptitudes en distintos equipos de trabajo. Cerca de un 65% de los trabajadores del conocimiento en Estados Unidos y Europa, por ejemplo, están implicados de algún modo en trabajos MTM. Pero, ¿cuál es el efecto de este fenómeno en la productividad y el aprendizaje de individuos, equi...Starting at €8.20
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What Makes a Team Smarter More Women
Woolley, Anita; Malone, Thomas; Berinato, ScottArticle HBS-F1106D-ELeadership and People ManagementWhen professors Anita Woolley and Thomas Malone studied the factors that increased a group's collective intelligence, they made some surprising discoveries: A team's intelligence, as measured by performance on a range of tasks, had relatively little to do with the individual IQs of its members. But it had a lot to do with the gender of those members.Starting at €8.20