Showing posts with label performance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label performance. Show all posts

Sunday, 29 March 2015

Finding the right balance between the group and the individual

'Balancing Rocks' by Viewminder
under a CC license
We often hear that successful organisations are based on effective teams. Almost equally often we hear that successful organisations are those with charismatic, efficient leaders. Those statements are complementing rather than contradicting each other. However, as the headcount and complexity of structure, operations and objectives of organisations increases, the importance of the teams that operate them becomes increasingly important. A major challenge in teams of a given composition is how to balance between the needs/ priorities of the individual and the needs/ priorities of the group.