ARBUS101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Cisco Systems, Extraversion And Introversion, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Arts and Business
• Course: ARBUS101
• Professor: David H A

Document Summary

What tasks are individuals better at performing. How would you support managing tensions in a team. Personality clashes between team members or disagreements about the level of contribution of individual team members need to be resolved. Effective team members are: committed (reliable and trustworthy), willing to offer and ask for help, motivated (invest time and energy to achieve team goals), ensuring that each team member is supported in contributing to the achievement of team goals. How was the change justified improve company productivity leveraging past successful experiences with teams. Compare command and control versus collaboration and teamwork each has their place; the former is needed to implement decisions; the latter is needed to come up with the decision on what to do. The ceo"s biggest challenge letting go of his authority to make decisions and giving teams the time to come up with the decision.