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Teaming

How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy

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Teaming

By: Amy C. Edmondson
Narrated by: Vanessa Hart
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New breakthrough thinking in organizational learning, leadership, and change.

Continuous improvement, understanding complex systems, and promoting innovation are all part of the landscape of learning challenges today's companies face. Amy Edmondson shows that organizations thrive, or fail to thrive, based on how well the small groups within those organizations work. In most organizations, the work that produces value for customers is carried out by teams, and increasingly, by flexible team-like entities. The pace of change and the fluidity of most work structures means that it's not really about creating effective teams anymore, but instead about leading effective teaming.

Teaming shows that organizations learn when the flexible, fluid collaborations they encompass are able to learn. The problem is teams, and other dynamic groups, don't learn naturally. Edmondson outlines the factors that prevent them from doing so, such as interpersonal fear, irrational beliefs about failure, groupthink, problematic power dynamics, and information hoarding. With Teaming, leaders can shape these factors by encouraging reflection, creating psychological safety, and overcoming defensive interpersonal dynamics that inhibit the sharing of ideas. Further, they can use practical management strategies to help organizations realize the benefits inherent in both success and failure.

  • Presents a clear explanation of practical management concepts for increasing learning capability for business results
  • Introduces a framework that clarifies how learning processes must be altered for different kinds of work
  • Explains how Collaborative Learning works, and gives tips for how to do it well
  • Includes case-study research on Intermountain healthcare, Prudential, GM, Toyota, IDEO, the IRS, and both Cincinnati and Minneapolis Children's Hospitals, among others

Based on years of research, this book shows how leaders can make organizational learning happen by building teams that learn.

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At first this book seemed overly academic, but that grew on me. It’s full of crest nuggets of wisdom that can be applied.

Great concepts to apply

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The book is very informative and was assigned reading for class. Having it on audible made classes discussion possible for me. Thanks

Class resource

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The narrator making it hard to listen - so boring and technical. Also the book itself wansnt si good, ,the main messages could be delivered much briefly, it repeats same points over and over.
I really appriciate Amy admonson but this was dissapointing book

Too long and repeats

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The information in the book is vital for organizations that need to build trust and teamwork to reduce errors and risks. The audiobook was hard to listen to and I almost couldn't finish the book. This one would be better in as a digital book or paperback. The narrator's voice was very rough and there was content in tables that was hard to follow by listening. I will have to go back and review PDF content that came with the book.

Great ideas for improvement

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Great perspective on how to create transformative teams to get work done. An absolutely great read. Edmondson lays out an excellent path to excellence.

Framing Teaming

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The book is not without valuable information, but it is presenter in such an uninspiring way.

The book is probably better used as reference material than as an audio book.

Very academic.

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