Leading Teams Rationale The Lone Ranger is dead. When The Economist magazine recently asked 180 leaders what the major influence on future organizations would be, two-thirds of them said it would be teams and groups. Clearly, the John Wayne model of leadership won't work. What is needed today is a different kind of leadership. People who think they can do it by themselves are somewhat deluded. Despite these kinds of statements the cult figure of the …showed first 75 words of 3183 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3183 total…e company, even if it means a personal sacrifice. References The Investment Dealers' Digest : IDD; New York; Dec 20, 1999 Executive Excellence, Warren Bennis, Vol 15, Issue 3, Mar 1998 Academy of Management journal, 37: 1649-1665. Milliken F & Martins L 1996, Searching for common threads: Understanding the multiple effects of diversity in organizational groups. Academy of Management Review, 21: 402-433. American Management Association, Louisa Wah, Vol 89, issue 2, Feb 2000 Management Teams, Why They Succeed or Fail, Belbin RM., 1994 Teaming Up, Harshman CL & Steven LP, 1994