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Strategic Teams and the Adaptive Enterprise

The assumption that every organization evolves is a good place to start the conversation about strategic teams and the adaptive enterprise. Organizations evolve in response to a host of technical, market, and economic forces. They evolve in response to changes in stakeholder interests and objectives....

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High-Performance Strategic Teams

By Dewar Sloan

The essential advantage of strategic teams is the potential for better, smarter, stronger, faster performance. That may sound like a restatement of the obvious, however, it reflects some key development concerns. Who serves on high-performance teams? How do these teams become better than the sum...

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Teams and Structure

By Dewar Sloan

Strategic Teams and Structure Teams of one sort or another are part of an organization’s structure. They help bring order and arrangement to the work to be done for decision-making processes, for risk management and problem solving. Teams provide inter-functional depth and cross-functional reach. They provide...

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Strategic Teams and Perspective

By Dewar Sloan

One of the great advantages of strategic teams is perspective, the ability to think about things differently, and in context. This includes the ability to attend to different points of view, alternatives, and forces of the market; as well as the ability to appreciate different...

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Strategic Teams and Diversity

By Dewar Sloan

There are clear advantages for strategic teams built from Talent Blocks and Beams with at least some expressed diversity. What we have in diverse teams is the blending of perspectives, expertise, principles, and experiences. And while diversity in organizations can be measured and gauged in...

Strategic Teams and the Adaptive Enterprise

High-Performance Strategic Teams

Teams and Structure

Strategic Teams and Perspective

Strategic Teams and Diversity

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