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...world of work has changed quite a bit during the past 80 years. The idea that the power of the group comes primarily from the group itself is as outdated as the rotary dial, according to Deborah Ancona, a professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management, and Henrik Bresman, an assistant professor of organizational behavior at INSEAD, who have written a book, X-Teams: How to Build Teams That Lead, Innovate and Succeed...
...Ancona and Bresman have laid out a framework for doing it another way. In X-Teams--their name for groups that get it right--the authors dive into the nitty-gritty details of engineering a better team: how to reach outward, build a support structure, be more flexible and navigate a corporate culture that might be less than enthusiastic about border crossing. They use examples from teams at Microsoft, Motorola, Toyota and Southwest Airlines and describe in depth how a team at Merrill Lynch created a distressed-equities desk that spanned debt and equity--something that had never been done...
...consider the future. Building bridges of understanding requires honesty and sensitivity on both sides. We hope that, in the future, Tadros will be willing to join us in a constructive dialogue about the possibility of a peaceful coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians. Joshua Lehrer-Graiwer '95 Jonathan Bresman '95-96 Co-Chairs Emeriti, Harvard Students for Israel...
...Bresman is a Crimson editor...
...want to go out in the world and get a job, but the academic thing is getting boring," Bresman said. "The idea that in order to survive you have to exchange your services for little green pieces of paper [which you use] to buy tangerines...is silly...