{"id":1002,"date":"2007-01-25T08:41:22","date_gmt":"2007-01-25T16:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2007\/01\/none_of_us_is_as_dumb_as_all_o\/"},"modified":"2007-01-25T08:41:22","modified_gmt":"2007-01-25T16:41:22","slug":"none_of_us_is_as_dumb_as_all_o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/none_of_us_is_as_dumb_as_all_o.php","title":{"rendered":"None of us is as dumb as all of us"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ken Thompson reminds us that teamwork is an exercise in understanding the players, goals, constraints, and the task at hand — and making sure they all are aligned in the same direction. He offers a quick team profile checklist<\/a> to see where the team and the task may be out of whack, focusing on eight areas:<\/p>\n

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  1. Nature of Team Objective\n
  2. Team Leadership\/Management Style\n
  3. Team Member Profile\n
  4. Team Shape\n
  5. Team Environment\n
  6. Team Working Approach\n
  7. Team Social Dynamic\n
  8. Team Technology Factor\n<\/ol>\n

    He also quotes Jon Katzenbach and Douglas Smith, writing in the Harvard Business Review<\/i><\/a>, who identified three types of teams, each requiring a different communications and control strategy to move them forward:<\/p>\n

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    1. Recommender Teams<\/b>: those that recommend things — task forces or project groups (often part-time; great for reviewing work but can lack a “team engine” for getting detailed work done)<\/i>.\n
    2. Doer Teams<\/b>: those that make or do things — manufacturing, operations, or marketing groups (great for doing things, but their networks may be limited to their own functional areas which can blind them to some innovation and cross-functional opportunities)<\/i>.\n
    3. Managing Teams<\/b>: those that run things — groups that oversee some significant functional activity (often staffed with senior executives who have serious time management challenges and are unlikely to engage with traditional team communication and meeting approaches)<\/i>.\n<\/ol>\n

      NOTE: The title of this weblog entry comes from a favorite ”demotivation” poster<\/a> from Despair.com<\/a>. Or, try this one on group behavior<\/a>, or this one on teamwork<\/a>, or maybe this one on the benefits of ignorance<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Ken Thompson reminds us that teamwork is an exercise in understanding the players, goals, constraints, and the task at hand — and making sure they all are aligned in the same direction. He offers a quick team profile checklist to see where the team and the task may be out of whack, focusing on eight […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1002","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}