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7 Roadblocks to Building & Managing High-Performing Teams

“The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.” Everyone’s heard that expression. And we’re all familiar with what it means: An effective team can accomplish more as a whole than its individual members can accomplish on their own.

The key word here is effective. Building an effective, high‐performing team requires more than simply throwing a group of outstanding individuals into a room and telling them they can’t come out until they have a solution. And maintaining an effective team requires planning, communication and decision‐making. Assess individual strengths and weaknesses, build support, establish the conditions for effectiveness, agree on your goals—and you’re on the road to building a championship team. But lead with your emotions, shy away from hard decisions, have faith that the process will “work itself out,” populate your team with your personal favorites—and don’t be surprised if your outstanding individuals fail to harness their collective talent. We see it in sports all the time. And it happens in business just as often.

Based on our work with many of America’s Most Productive Companies, we’ve identified seven major roadblocks to building and managing high‐performing teams. We’ve seen excellent managers drop the team‐building ball, and we’ve seen other managers exceed expectations by doing team‐building right.

You can build and manage a high‐performing team by avoiding these seven team‐building blunders:

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