Why teams break down

Why teams break down

In my last post, I admitted that I am a total factory junkie.  I love industrial machinery, especially automated assembly lines.  But today, the gears, pulleys, and levers of the industrial age have been replaced by the human machine of the knowledge age—the team.  In...
Teams: The simple machines of modern business

Teams: The simple machines of modern business

  When I was a kid, I sat glued to the television watching behind the scenes shows on the workings of industrial plants.  I couldn’t get enough of watching a series of machines work in tandem to convert raw materials into marvelous things like crayons, cotton...