Chapter 8

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Blackwell, C. W. (1998). Book Review: Teams at the Top Jon R. Katzenbach Harvard Business School Press, 1997, 234 pp. $24.95, soft-cover. Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies, 5 (1): 166-168.

1. Does the leadership of teams have to start at the top?
2. What does discipline, alignment, and balance have to do with teams?
3. Why is real team effort at the top hard to achieve?

Tuckman, B. W., and Jensen, M. A. C. (1977). Stages of Small-Group Development Revisited. Group & Organization Management, 2 (4): 419-427.

1. Tuckman first proposed a model of group development. Explain this concept?
2. Why did Tuckman feel that the literature was not representative of small group development?
3. How does Zurcher’s seven stages compare to Tuckman’s four stage?