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X-teams: How to Build Teams That Lead, Innovate and Succeed
by Deborah Ancona, Henrik Bresman
from Harvard Business School Press
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 
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A methodology for managing teams and projects. 
Years of research show that a team that focuses solely on internal team building is likely to fail. The "X-team" emphasizes external activity, and a flexible membership and leadership structure. Deborah Ancona and Henrik Bresman write that such a team is not only more likely to succeed, but will often exceed managerial expectations. This book, divided into three sections, tells you why some teams fail, how to create one that works and how to manage it through every phase of a project. The authors make... more info
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A process to help your teams be more outward looking and aware of its stakeholders 
This book takes the basic concepts of team building and management, but adds an important twist and then gives it a framework with lots of labels and structure that are quite useful to a consultant, and maybe less useful to a team trying to get something done besides working the process.
The basic idea of an x-team is that too many failed teams become so inward looking that they fail to connect with their stakeholders. They end up trying to deliver something their customers don't want and can't use.... more info
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Good new insights in teams
X-Teams is a well-written book on teams with an important new message. This is: well working teams should look outside as much as inside. In this review, I doubted between a 3 and a 4 star rating, though I decided on 4 stars.
The book is divided in 3 parts. The first part tries to explain why our mental model about teams might result into bad teams. The second part is the main content of the book and it talks about what X-Teams are and how you can try to create them. The third part talks about... more info
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Looking outward instead of being insular...
Much of the literature you read on building teams in the workplace deal with the internal interactions of the group... how they get along, building morale, etc. Deborah Ancona and Henrik Bresman offer up a different take on team success in the book X-teams: How to Build Teams That Lead, Innovate and Succeed. Given my experience over the years, their methodology is likely to be more successful than the conventional approach.
Contents:
Part 1 - Why Good Teams Fail: Into a Downward Spiral; A... more info
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