Council Post: The Importance Of Human-Machine AI Team-Building

For decades humans have been cultivating the concept that "teams" are more powerful and effective than the sole individual. Professor Leigh Thompson of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University defined a team as "a group of people who are interdependent with respect to information, resources, knowledge, and skills and who seek to combine their efforts to achieve a common goal." Robert E. Cole of the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley studied the evolution of the team concept in industrialized countries from the 1960s to the 1980s. Whether we call them "autonomous workgroups" or just "teams," the result is often higher productivity with more superb quality. From my experience managing engineering teams, my preferred high-tech strategy has been to form "small teams that move fast."