Making Work Better Through Teaming
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On the surface, deploying several people in the place of one may seem inefficient, but people who divide up their jobs among themselves and other team members have more fun and are then freed up for other projects. It's a great way to practice better communication and collaboration as well as to experiment with "systems thinking," unravelling the twisted knots of a messy problem back to their sources. Different perspectives, shared in an atmosphere of mutual respect, will always get a better result than the Lone Ranger approach.
According to a recent magazine article, more than half of large corporations are experimenting with self-managed teams. That's a productivity trend that you and your organisation would do well to take notice of.
