1. Watch Lecture 9-1: Team Overview and Lecture 9-2: Basics of Teamwork
2. Read Videos: Whole Foods (transcriipt attached.) and Lencioni on team dysfunctions (transcriipt attached.)
3. Read Summary of Lenconi’s Brief Summary of The Ideal Team Player. Srinath Ramakrishnan.
4. Read Why Teams DON’T Work., Coutu, D., Harvard Business Review, May 2009, pp. 98-105.
Each week you will find application readings drawn from the Harvard Business Review and other business outlets. These short articles will always have
connections with the content of the session. These readings will usually deal with real world management challenges. For most modules, you will write a
paragraph or two with your “takeaways” from the readings associated with the topic of that module. These should describe a “Takeaways” from the
reading(s) that struck you as something that you could apply to your current or future managerial tasks. You need not write something on each article, but I
am confident that there will be at least two or three ideas the readings that will catch your interest and attention.
Assessment of your responses to these cases will focus on:
Clarity of describing the idea from the reading.
Attempt to relate the ideas from the reading to your experience.
Evaluative reactions to the ideas in the article (Positive and/or negative).