X-Teams, Revised and Updated How to Build Teams That Lead, Innovate, and Succeed

<p><b>An essential work on teams--now updated with new research and tools and a new preface--<i>X-Teams</i> shows how an externally focused team model is the key to fueling innovation and your organization's success.</b></p> <p>You build a team around top-notch talent. The team members work well together; they're committed to the mission and are highly motivated to perform. Yet the results are disappointing. You're not seeing creativity and flexibility. You're not getting breakthrough ideas.</p> <p>"Good" teams build camaraderie, confidence in their abilities, and a solid process for working together. But these internal dynamics--while positive in themselves--can create a wall between the team and the outside world. And that wall can prevent the team from adapting to change and delivering value to the organization.</p> <p>In this updated, streamlined edition, with a new preface and practical tools, Deborah Ancona and Henrik Bresman describe an externally focused team model--the x-team--that is even more relevant today than when it was first introduced. With their distinctively flexible membership and leadership structure, x-teams continuously reach outward to fuel the innovation process.</p> <p>With new examples and research from organizations such as Microsoft, Takeda, and the Museum of Modern Art, Ancona and Bresman show you how to build x-teams that:</p> <ul> <li>Keep pace with shifts in markets, technologies, cultures, and your competition</li> <li>Innovate by moving quickly from generating ideas to executing and diffusing them throughout your organization</li> <li>Employ "distributed leadership" to unlock crucial information, expertise, and new ways of working together--wherever these qualities reside, whether within or outside your company</li> </ul> <p>In an increasingly complex and ever-changing world, where adaptability and creativity are paramount to an enterprise's success--and even its survival--<i>X-Teams</i> is your handbook for winning.</p>