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Architecture & Engineering
by Design By Clive Shearer |
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October 11, 2006
Management By Design: There’s a downside to all this teamwork
By CLIVE SHEARER
Special to the Journal
Special to the Journal
Teams are a feature of everyday work. We have project teams, problem solving teams, planning teams and process improvement teams.
Do we have too many? It seems as if some offices have to do everything in a team, with independent decisions distinctly discouraged. The theory says that a well orchestrated and cohesive group of ordinary people can always outperform an uncoordinated group of geniuses. Is that always true?
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