mesh organizations, where the responsibilities and accountabilities are shared among team members.
A self-managed team is a group of employees that’s responsible and accountable for all or most aspects of producing a product or delivering a service.
A self-managed team carries out supporting tasks, such as planning and scheduling the workflow and managing annual leave and absence, in addition to technical tasks.
-highly successful- organizations like Zappos, Google, and Meta, teams can come up with their own goals.
increases their responsibilities to another level as they are making a strategic impact, directly.
but the pay-off is highly engaged teams.
leadership is still very much valued in self-managing teams.
people still need guidance, support, an outside perspective,
Keep removing obstacles that keep the team from running itself successfully.
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