Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy

In the knowledge economy, teams are the principle means by which work gets done and organizational value is created. In this groundbreaking book, Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson draws on her 20 years of research on teams in a variety of organizational settings to show how and why organizational success or failure is dependent on a team's ability to "team"—to learn and adapt to their environment and to each other.

Using illustrative examples from such leading organizations as Intermountain Healthcare, Prudential, Toyota, IDEO, the IRS, and both Cincinnati and Minneapolis Children's Hospitals, the author describes the basic teaming activities and conditions that determine how work gets done, how leaders help make it happen, and how a safe interpersonal environment frees up people to focus on innovation. Throughout the book, Edmondson's guidelines offer a supportive framework for understanding and responding to the dynamics of collective learning. Designed as a practical resource, the book is filled with ideas, solutions, and strategies appropriate for all types and sizes of organizations.

Teaming is broken into three parts so that leaders and practitioners can easily find topics and identify the core activities that fuel teaming efforts. Part One answers basic questions about teaming, such as: How does it work? What does it take for people to learn how to team? What do people do when teaming? How does teaming produce organizational learning? Part Two looks at four leadership actions that enable teaming and learning, providing an up-close look at how people work together in a wide variety of organizational contexts. Part Three shows how to implement teaming on an organizational level and offers three case studies that examine different potential learning outcomes, including process improvement, problem solving, and innovation.

Teaming shows how any organization can figure out how to learn in order to remain competitive and relevant in today's complex and global organizational landscape.

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Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy

In the knowledge economy, teams are the principle means by which work gets done and organizational value is created. In this groundbreaking book, Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson draws on her 20 years of research on teams in a variety of organizational settings to show how and why organizational success or failure is dependent on a team's ability to "team"—to learn and adapt to their environment and to each other.

Using illustrative examples from such leading organizations as Intermountain Healthcare, Prudential, Toyota, IDEO, the IRS, and both Cincinnati and Minneapolis Children's Hospitals, the author describes the basic teaming activities and conditions that determine how work gets done, how leaders help make it happen, and how a safe interpersonal environment frees up people to focus on innovation. Throughout the book, Edmondson's guidelines offer a supportive framework for understanding and responding to the dynamics of collective learning. Designed as a practical resource, the book is filled with ideas, solutions, and strategies appropriate for all types and sizes of organizations.

Teaming is broken into three parts so that leaders and practitioners can easily find topics and identify the core activities that fuel teaming efforts. Part One answers basic questions about teaming, such as: How does it work? What does it take for people to learn how to team? What do people do when teaming? How does teaming produce organizational learning? Part Two looks at four leadership actions that enable teaming and learning, providing an up-close look at how people work together in a wide variety of organizational contexts. Part Three shows how to implement teaming on an organizational level and offers three case studies that examine different potential learning outcomes, including process improvement, problem solving, and innovation.

Teaming shows how any organization can figure out how to learn in order to remain competitive and relevant in today's complex and global organizational landscape.

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Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy

Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy

by Amy C. Edmondson
Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy

Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy

by Amy C. Edmondson

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Overview

In the knowledge economy, teams are the principle means by which work gets done and organizational value is created. In this groundbreaking book, Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson draws on her 20 years of research on teams in a variety of organizational settings to show how and why organizational success or failure is dependent on a team's ability to "team"—to learn and adapt to their environment and to each other.

Using illustrative examples from such leading organizations as Intermountain Healthcare, Prudential, Toyota, IDEO, the IRS, and both Cincinnati and Minneapolis Children's Hospitals, the author describes the basic teaming activities and conditions that determine how work gets done, how leaders help make it happen, and how a safe interpersonal environment frees up people to focus on innovation. Throughout the book, Edmondson's guidelines offer a supportive framework for understanding and responding to the dynamics of collective learning. Designed as a practical resource, the book is filled with ideas, solutions, and strategies appropriate for all types and sizes of organizations.

Teaming is broken into three parts so that leaders and practitioners can easily find topics and identify the core activities that fuel teaming efforts. Part One answers basic questions about teaming, such as: How does it work? What does it take for people to learn how to team? What do people do when teaming? How does teaming produce organizational learning? Part Two looks at four leadership actions that enable teaming and learning, providing an up-close look at how people work together in a wide variety of organizational contexts. Part Three shows how to implement teaming on an organizational level and offers three case studies that examine different potential learning outcomes, including process improvement, problem solving, and innovation.

Teaming shows how any organization can figure out how to learn in order to remain competitive and relevant in today's complex and global organizational landscape.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781118216767
Publisher: Wiley
Publication date: 03/20/2012
Sold by: JOHN WILEY & SONS
Format: eBook
Pages: 352
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Amy C. Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School, where she teaches courses in leadership, organizational learning, and operations management in the MBA and Executive Education programs.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Edgar H. Schein xi

Introduction 1

part one teaming

1 A New Way of Working 11

Teaming Is a Verb 12

Organizing to Execute 15

The Learning Imperative 19

Learning to Team, Teaming to Learn 24

Organizing to Learn 26

Execution-as-Learning 30

The Process Knowledge Spectrum 32

A New Way of Leading 38

Leadership Summary 42

Lessons and Actions 42

2 Teaming to Learn, Innovate, and Compete 45

The Teaming Process 50

Four Pillars of Effective Teaming 51

The Benefits of Teaming 56

Social and Cognitive Barriers to Teaming 60

When Conflict Heats Up 67

Leadership Actions That Promote Teaming 75

Leadership Summary 78

Lessons and Actions 79

part two organizing to learn

3 The Power of Framing 83

Cognitive Frames 84

Framing a Change Project 89

The Leader’s Role 93

Team Members’ Roles 96

The Project Purpose 99

A Learning Frame Versus an Execution Frame 102

Changing Frames 104

Leadership Summary 111

Lessons and Actions 112

4 Making It Safe to Team 115

Trust and Respect 118

Psychological Safety for Teaming and Learning 125

The Effect of Hierarchy on Psychological Safety 131

Cultivating Psychological Safety 135

Leadership Summary 145

Lessons and Actions 146

5 Failing Better to Succeed Faster 149

The Inevitability of Failure 150

The Importance of Small Failures 151

Why It’s Difficult to Learn from Failure 154

Failure across the Process Knowledge Spectrum 160

Matching Failure Cause and Context 164

Developing a Learning Approach to Failure 168

Strategies for Learning from Failures 170

Leadership Summary 182

Lessons and Actions 183

6 Teaming Across Boundaries 185

Teaming Despite Boundaries 191

Visible and Invisible Boundaries 193

Three Types of Boundaries 197

Teaming Across Common Boundaries 201

Leading Communication across Boundaries 212

Leadership Summary 215

Lessons and Actions 216

part three execution-as-learning

7 Putting Teaming and Learning to Work 221

Execution-as-Learning 222

Using the Process Knowledge Spectrum 229

Facing a Shifting Context at Telco 234

Learning That Never Ends 240

Keeping Learning Alive 252

Leadership Summary 254

Lessons and Actions 256

8 Leadership Makes It Happen 257

Leading Teaming in Routine Production at Simmons 258

Leading Teaming in Complex Operations at Children’s Hospital 265

Leading Teaming for Innovation at IDEO 276

Leadership Summary 283

Moving Forward 285

Notes 289

Acknowledgments 309

About the Author 313

Index 315

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