MANAGEMENT


WIS YOUR TEAM TOO BIG? TOO SMALL? HAT’S THE RIGHT NUMBER?


WHEN IT COMES TO ATHLETICS, SPORTS TEAMS HAVE A SPECIFIC NUMBER OF TEAM PLAYERS: A BASKETBALL TEAM NEEDS FIVE, BASEBALL NINE, AND SOCCER 11. BUT WHEN IT COMES TO THE WORKPLACE, WHERE TEAMWORK IS INCREASINGLY WIDESPREAD THROUGHOUT COMPLEX AND EXPANDING ORGANIZATIONS, THERE IS NO HARD-AND- FAST RULE TO DETERMINE THE OPTIMAL NUMBER TO HAVE ON EACH TEAM.


Should the most productive team


have 4.6 team members, as suggested in a recent article on “How to Build


a Great Team” in Fortune magazine? What about naming five or six individuals to each team, which is


the number of MBA students chosen each year by Wharton for its 144 separate learning teams? Is it true


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