Team learning: Responding to organizational and environmental complexity

D Christopher Kayes

Chapter 9 in Destructive goal pursuit: The mount everest disaster, 2006, pp 111-127 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract You are trapped. You made it to the top of the world’s highest mountain, but now you struggle with your teammates to get down. You are caught in a blinding storm and your body is about to give out. Even though you are only a few hundred yards from a safe camp, with tents and oxygen, you cannot navigate through the blinding storm that engulfs you. You begin to rely heavily on your teammates—members of other teams, who were once your competition, may be your only chance to survive. You try to talk to team members but soon realize the difficulties of communicating in a blinding storm. The wind, snow, and craziness of the situation make verbal communication almost impossible. You try hand signals but those too are difficult to see in the blinding snow. Normal modes of communication have broken down.

Keywords: Team Member; Goal Pursuit; Learning Cycle; Team Learning; Collective Problem (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230503472_9

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