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It is a summer weekend and you may be thinking about the great American past-time: baseball. Take a moment or two and check out new research comparing winning baseball teams and winning business teams that got my attention. It could help your local little league team and your small business team too! It seems some very smart professors have found that winning in business and in baseball requires teams be built around key players on the team. In fact, researchers find that baseball teams investing in highly skilled pitchers and catchers, whom they consider “core role” players, enjoy greater success. This model, they say, also translates to business work teams, which should be constructed around strategic core role holders rather than individual characteristics.
Teams are generally thought of as a group of individuals working together to achieve something of value, whether it is the goal of a baseball team to win games or a business team put together to help the organization be competitive. Teams are very much a part of organizations,” says Stephen Humphrey, an assistant professor of management at Pennsylvania State University’s State’s Smeal College of Business. He cited a 1999 study that found 50 percent of business organizations employed teams in a meaningful capacity and “given what we have learned in the intervening years, the use of work teams has become even more prevalent.”
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