Inter-Dependent Teams: people working together to achieve a common goal.
Extra-Dependent Teams: people learning together to develop a common practice.
Extra-Dependent Teams: Realising the Power of Similarity reframes the conventional mental model of teams into two complementary mental models of Extra-Dependent and Inter-Dependent Teams. Both types of team operate inside organisations today, but convention doesn-t realise their difference. Extra-Dependent Teams are present in organisations because of their similarity - they do similar work in similar ways, but don-t actually work together. People who lead them often feel like they are herding cats. Convention cites them as dysfunctional.
But cats don-t herd. They are independent whilst all being the same. Realising this difference provides new ways of understanding and addressing the problems that convention can-t overcome.
The reader will be introduced to the distinctness of Extra-Dependent Teams, t
