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HSD and Teams

By Edwin Olson and Glenda Eoyang
Business & Industry Collaborate to Create Community

All human systems are self-organizing, and teams are a great example. Individual agents come together from different places with different skills and expectations. They interact in meetings and over email. Over time, patterns form of high performance or wasted effort.

What are the conditions that allow a team to be its best and do its best?

Human systems dynamics helps leaders and team members become conscious of the patterns that affect their work and shift those patterns to improve overall performance and impact.

This article provides background and advice for using Adaptive Action and Pattern Logic to build great team work.

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