1 May 2013 | Teamwork
Teamwork and collaboration are critical to mission achievement in any organisation that has to respond quickly to changing circumstances. Research has not only affirmed that idea but also surfaced a number of mistaken beliefs about teamwork that can side-track productive collaboration. Here are six of them: Misperception #1: Harmony helps. Smooth interaction among collaborators avoids time-wasting debates about how best to proceed. Actually: Quite the opposite, research shows. Conflict, when well managed and focused on a team’s objectives, can generate more creative solutions than one sees in conflict-free groups. So long as it is about the work itself, disagreements can be good for a team. Research on symphony orchestras showed that slightly grumpy orchestras played a little better as>


