037 Making Great Teams

What makes a great team? A great leader? Talented individuals? A clear purpose? All of the above and more. This episode helps to define what we mean by 'team', as most of us function within a range of different types of teams... sports, management, service provision or focused task or product, all require good team-working. However, teamwork is often easier to talk about than to deliver. In this episode Steve Morgan focuses on an influential book on his team development work, written by Warren Bennis and Patricia Biederman 'Organising Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration'. A combination of great leadership and talented individuals are required, but the great groups studied in this seminal publication help to identify fifteen components of what contribute to the development of 'great groups'. In connection with previous episodes, it is also important to recognise that interfering bureaucracy is entirely absent from the works of the historic great groups!