Behaving as one

Geoff Sheard, Andrew Kakabadse and Nada Kakabadse

Chapter Chapter 6 in Leadership teams, 2009, pp 144-182 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract What makes a group of people a team? Groups and teams are not the same thing. We can define a group as two or more individuals, interacting and interdependent, who have come together to achieve a particular objective. The individuals concerned interact primarily to share information and to make decisions to help one another perform within each member’s area of responsibility. In this context, the group has no need or opportunity to engage in collective work that requires joint effort. Performance of the group is merely the summation of the group members’ individual contributions. There is no positive synergy that would create an overall level of performance that is greater than the sum of the inputs.

Keywords: Team Member; Leadership Team; Leadership Behavior; Shared Objective; External Reality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230239487_6

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