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Tools for X-Teams
From Theory to ActionHow to Build a Team hatWill Maximize Your Company’s Innovative Capacity
Excerpted from
 X-Teams: How to Build Teams That Lead,Innovate,and Succeed
By
Deborah Ancona and Henrik Bresman
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Harvard Business Press
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ISBN-13: 978-1-4221-7845-4
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Copyright 2008 Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation All rights reservedPrinted in the United States of AmericaThis chapter was originally published as chapter 7 of 
 X-Teams: How to Build Teams That Lead,Innovate,and Succeed
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SEVEN
Tools for X-Teams
 From Theory to Action
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UPPOSE THAT YOU ARE A MANAGER
charged with creat-ing a team. It might be a product development team, a re-search team, a sales team, a manufacturing team, a problem-solving team,a committee or task force, or even a top management team. What, ex-actly, are the tools you would need to craft a high-performing X-team?What would you need to do to jump-start the team’s work and enable itto engage in the external activity and extreme execution needed to suc-ceed? What would best help a team move through the phases of explo-ration, exploitation, and exportation? In short, how can you facilitate ateam’s ability to engage in distributed leadership in action, pulling to-gether the various resources inside and outside the organization, and upand down the organizational hierarchy, to bring the core mission andstrategy of the company to life?
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