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Leading Teams Hackman

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What this book knows

Teams succeed not through heroic leadership but through enabling structures, clear direction, and conditions that let collective work motivate itself.

Sex: Absent
Work: Primary
Learning: Present
Religion: Absent

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Even a task as inconsequential as writing a computer program can create the three psychological states and thereby elicit internal motivation.
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Anyone who has observed differences in behavior by members of winning and losing athletic teams immediately after a championship game knows collective internal motivation.
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For managers to specify and control all aspects of a team's work in real time is but a group-level version of scientific management—whose dysfunctions have been amply demonstrated.
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In deciding the extent of a team's authority, it is helpful to consider who is in the best position to handle each of four functions any organizational unit must fulfill.
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Flight attendant teams did not feel they had the right to alter routines, even when it was clear they were less than ideal for the special circumstances of a given flight.
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mind-and-cognition

Pilots returning from multiple-day trips were fatigued but outperformed rested crews—unexpectedly showing the benefits of keeping members of task-performing teams together.
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