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Collaborative effort of a team to achieve a common goal
Teamwork is the collaborative effort of a group to achieve a common goal or to complete a task in an effective and efficient way. Teamwork is seen within the framework of a team, which is a group of interdependent individuals who work together towards a common goal. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: TeamworkA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Supply chain collaboration and sustainable development goals (SDGs). Teamwork makes achieving SDGs dream workInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Las cinco disfunciones de un equipoThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: The Experience and Evolution of Trust: Implications for Cooperation and TeamworkCited 2,191 times
- Go sideways: Team buildingA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Astronaut organization in spaceflight missionsA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun The cooperative effort of a team of people to achieve a common goal.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
The Experience and Evolution of Trust: Implications for Cooperation and Teamwork
The human factor: the critical importance of effective teamwork and communication in providing safe care
Is there a “Big Five” in Teamwork?
Teamwork Quality and the Success of Innovative Projects: A Theoretical Concept and Empirical Evidence
Error, stress, and teamwork in medicine and aviation: cross sectional surveys
Teamwork in healthcare: Key discoveries enabling safer, high-quality care.
Teamwork and patient safety in dynamic domains of healthcare: a review of the literature
Interprofessional teamwork: Professional cultures as barriers
🆕 Influential since 2022
Supply chain collaboration and sustainable development goals (SDGs). Teamwork makes achieving SDGs dream work
Smooth and Resilient Human–Machine Teamwork as an Industry 5.0 Design Challenge
A teamwork effectiveness model for agile software development
Investigating AI Teammate Communication Strategies and Their Impact in Human-AI Teams for Effective Teamwork
Effectiveness of interprofessional simulation-based education programs to improve teamwork and communication for students in the healthcare profession: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
📚 Books worth reading
Las cinco disfunciones de un equipoPatrick Lencioni · 2002
Cat Kid Comic ClubDav Pilkey · 2020
GROUPWORK PRACTICE IN SOCIAL WORKTREVOR LINDSAY, Trevor Lindsay · 2008
Making the TeamLeigh L. Thompson · 1999
The winner withinPat Riley · 1993
FlipchartArtElke Meyer · 2009
Teamwork troubleDan Gutman · 2016
Creating Effective TeamsSusan A. Wheelan · 1999
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
🔗 Related topics
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