Leading Teams #1: Introduction

Launching and leading intense teams

Consider the following: Team members are hijacking team meetings and convincing others to deviate from the original goals. The team leader lacks the skills to recognize these dynamics. Furthermore, the leader struggles with determining a turnaround approach and leadership model to effectively regain control of this intense team and refocus the members to achieve the original goals and objective...

Leading and Building High Performance Teams

The high performance organisation is a community of hundreds of disparate groups of people working in teams, throughout its structures and across its geography. For an interesting biological imagery, imagine looking through a microscope at an organisms cell structure and observing the countless amoebic movements, energy and growth formations which then split away and dissolve within the mass, j...

Modeling uncertainty in leading ad hoc teams

Ad hoc teamwork exists when a team of agents needs to cooperate without being able to communicate or use coordination schemes that were designed a-priori. Sometimes ad hoc teamwork amounts to acting so as to bring out the best in your teammates by “leading” them to the optimal joint action. Doing so can be challenging even when their behavior is fully known. In this paper, we take the challenge...

An introduction to leading and next-to-leading BFKL

Some twenty-five years ago Balitsky, Fadin, Kuraev and Lipatov (BFKL) set out to determine the high-energy behaviour of the scattering of hadronic objects within perturbative QCD. They found terms going as (αs ln s) n, where s is the squared centre-of-mass energy. Since ln s is large it can compensate the smallness of ᾱs and thus it was necessary to sum this whole series of leading logarithmic ...

Self-directed Work Teams Challenges for Leading, Managing, and Performing in Self-directed Work Teams