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Extreme Teaming
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Extreme Teaming

Lessons in Complex, Cross-Sector Leadership

Amy C. Edmondson and Jean-François Harvey
Emerald Publishing Limited, 2017

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Editorial Rating

9

Qualities

  • Innovative
  • Eye Opening
  • Concrete Examples

Recommendation

Extreme teams are specialized work groups whose members are experts with diverse backgrounds and skills. Often, team members represent multiple organizations and come together quickly to address sudden, calamitous problems. Leadership experts Amy C. Edmondson and Jean-François Harvey detail what makes extreme teams special, what it takes to lead them and what they can accomplish. If you want a dramatic example of an extreme team at work, consider the rescue of 33 Chilean men trapped far down in a collapsed mine.

Take-Aways

  • The 2010 rescue of 33 trapped Chilean miners exemplifies the capabilities of “extreme teams.”
  • The members of extreme teams address shared problems by collaborating to secure and leverage new knowledge.
  • Extreme teams depend on enlightened, functional leadership. 

About the Authors

Amy C. Edmondson, Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School, explores collaboration in uncertain, ambiguous settings. Jean-François Harvey is an assistant professor in the Department of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at HEC Montréal.

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