X-teams Leadership in Action

why do good teams fail? THEY'RE LOOKING INWARD, NOT OUTWARD You build a team around top notch talent. The team members work well together; they're committed to the mission and highly motivated to perform. Yet the results are disappointing. You're not seeing creativity and flexibility. You're not getting breakthrough ideas. "Good" teams build camaraderie, confidence in their abilities and a solid process for working together but these internal dynamics-while positive in themselves-can create a wall between the team from adapting to change and prevent the team from adapting to change and delivering value to the organization. In X-teams How to Build Teams That Lead, Innovate, and Succeed, Deborah Ancona and Henrik Bresman draw loon years of research to show how traditional, inward-looking teams models fall short in today's' business environment. What's needed and what work- is a new kind of team, the "X-team." With their distinctively flexible membership and leadership structure, X teams continuously reach outward to fuel the innovation process. Citing detailed examples from Microsoft, Southwest Airlines, BP, Merrill Lynch, and many other companies, Anconca and Bresman show you how to build X-teams that: Keep pace with shifts in markets, technologies, cultures and your competition Innovate by moving quickly from generating ideas to executing and diffusing them throughout your organization Employ "distributed leadership" to unlock crucial information, expertise and new ways of working together-wherever these qualities reside within or outside your company In a world where adaptability and creativity are paramount to an enterprise's success-and even its survival-X- teams is your handbook for constructing teams that maximize your company' innovative capacity.Ancona, Deborah is the author of 'X-teams Leadership in Action', published 2007 under ISBN 9781591396925 and ISBN 1591396921.