You build a team around top-notch talent. The team members work well together; they're committed to the mission and are highly motivated to perform. But the results are disappointing. You're not seeing much creativity or real breakthrough ideas.
In their new book X-Teams, Deborah Ancona and Henrik Bresman advocate a different approach. With a flexible membership and leadership structure, the X-Team is built around an externally focused team model that continuously reaches outward to fuel the innovation process.
On October 3rd they will share their insights into teams that drive innovation and organizational success. With new examples and tools, and research from organizations such as Microsoft, Takeda, and the Museum of Modern Art, Ancona and Bresman will show you how to build x-teams that:
- Keep pace with shifts in markets, technologies, cultures, and your competition
- Innovate by moving quickly from generating ideas to executing and diffusing them throughout your organization
- Employ "distributed leadership" to unlock crucial information, expertise, and new ways of working together—wherever these qualities reside, whether within or outside your company.
In an increasingly complex and ever-changing world, where adaptability and creativity are paramount to an enterprise's success—and even its survival—X-Teams is the key for winning.
I hope you can join us!
Deborah Ancona is the Seley Distinguished Professor of Management at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and the founder and former faculty director of the MIT Leadership Center. Henrik Bresman is an associate professor of organizational behavior at INSEAD and the former faculty director of the INSEAD Global Leadership Centre. He received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Register to confirm your place. You will receive the online link to the event in your confirmation email.