Teaming

Amy Edmondson's Teaming is an instant classic-a brilliantly conceived, beautifully written, and highly informative guide to the critical but often mismanaged process of collaboration. Whether in hospitals, factories, or space shuttles, she shows how rapid adjustment and learning produce success, and why failure is just a step along the way. -Rosabeth Moss Kanter, professor, Harvard Business School; author, Confidence and SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profit, Growth, and Social Good Health care is in transition from a hierarchical, industrial age model centered onappointments with physicians to the information age where inputs are morecomplex and people are more connected. In order to create patient-focused,information-enabled solutions, we need to be guided by Edmondson's teachings about learning, collaboration, and teaming. -Jack Cochran, executive director, Kaiser Permanente, The PermanenteFederation, LLC As hierarchical decision making breaks down in the on-demand information age,I believe enlightened team leadership is the key to success. Edmondson understands this and offers compelling new paradigms for team performance in the 21st century. -Douglas R. Conant, retired CEO, Campbell Soup Company; author, New York Times bestseller, TouchPoints I have admired Amy Edmondson and her work for over two decades. Now it isyour turn. Her clarity about how we work when we work at our best, her simple yet penetrating ways to show the how as well as the what-the method as well as the magic-together beautifully evoke and explain what human beings can actually accomplish together. As our problems get more complex and urgent, few domainswill be more important than teaming. -Peter Senge, founding chairperson, SoL; senior lecturer, MIT; author, The Fifth Discipline, Presence, and The Necessary Revolution Amy Edmondson has created the most complete and compelling book I've everread on what makes great teams tick-and how to build and sustain them. -Robert I. Sutton, professor, Stanford University; author, New York Times bestseller, Good Boss, Bad Boss Packed with insight, drawn from cutting-edge research, and squarely aimedat 21st century leaders seeking to build collaborative, self-reflective teams. -David Gergen, professor of public service, Harvard Kennedy School; senior political analyst, CNN; adviser to four U.S. presidents