Article: Go, team ... and take the consultants, too?(Plants of Tomorrow: Work Teams)(includes related article on incentives for work teams)

Building winning work teams is difficult, but food processors show it can be done.

Work teams are like any tool: They work well as long as they're used appropriately.

The Center for the Study of Work Teams at the University of North Texas estimates that by 2000, 80 percent of Fortune 500 organizations will have half of their employees on teams. What the center didn't estimate is how many of those teams are succeeding. Even consultants who've built their business around teams now concede that many industrial teambuilding exercises produce something more like the Cincinnati Bengals than the Denver Broncos.

"Ninety-five percent of efforts to ...

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