An essential work on teams-now updated with new research and tools and a new preface-X-Teams
shows how an externally focused team model is the key to fueling innovation and your
organization's success. You build a team around top-notch talent. The team members work well
together they're committed to the mission and are highly motivated to perform. Yet the results
are disappointing. You're not seeing creativity and flexibility. You're not getting
breakthrough ideas. Good teams build camaraderie confidence in their abilities and a solid
process for working together. But these internal dynamics-while positive in themselves-can
create a wall between the team and the outside world. And that wall can prevent the team from
adapting to change and delivering value to the organization. In this updated streamlined
edition with a new preface and practical tools Deborah Ancona and Henrik Bresman describe an
externally focused team model-the x-team-that is even more relevant today than when it was
first introduced. With their distinctively flexible membership and leadership structure
x-teams continuously reach outward to fuel the innovation process. With new examples and
research from organizations such as Microsoft Takeda and the Museum of Modern Art Ancona and
Bresman show you how to build x-teams that: Keep pace with shifts in markets technologies
cultures and your competition Innovate by moving quickly from generating ideas to executing
and diffusing them throughout your organization Employ distributed leadership to unlock crucial
information expertise and new ways of working together-wherever these qualities reside
whether within or outside your company In an increasingly complex and ever-changing world
where adaptability and creativity are paramount to an enterprise's success-and even its
survival-X-Teams is your handbook for winning.
