Posted on July 7, 2015 5:37 pm by Shel Holtz | Management | The Workplace Experience
The leaders of Allergan’s Human Resources department—about a dozen of us—spent a weekend in the early 1990s at a retreat in the mountains somewhere not too far from corporate headquarters in Irvine, California. The retreat was designed to host a “ropes course,” an experience that’s supposed to help strengthen a team.
These courses—also called a “challenge course”—engage participants in outdoor activities involving cables, ropes, and obstacles, along with “low”…
Posted on July 6, 2015 10:45 am by Shel Holtz | Management
A bold claim was made in a recent post by Ted Bauer, a content guy interested in engagement, management, and leadership. He wrote:
Cross-functional teams are almost completely and entirely bullshit.
Bauer’s conclusion is based on personal experience, but also on results of a study published in the Harvard Business Review that found 75% of the cross-functional teams studied were dysfunctional. That dysfunction was…
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