Amy Edmondson: How to turn a group of strangers into a team
艾米 · 埃德蒙森: 如何将一群陌生人变为一个团队
Amy Edmondson, the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School, studies people and teams seeking to make a positive difference through the work they do. Full bio
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Copper Mine in Northern Chile
一场巨大的坍塌
that's two Empire State Buildings --
——相当于两个帝国大厦的深度——
rock in the world.
designed for this purpose,
预先设计好的小型避难所,
for two men for 10 days.
that there is no solution.
is capable of getting through rock
能够在有限的时间内
where the refuge is.
if the miners are alive.
will be brought to the surface alive.
所有33人都会活着回到地面。
进行协调和合作,
and collaborating with people
所有你能想到的——
time zone, you name it --
因为这是不一样的。
because this is different.
那些扭转局势的操作。
those game-saving plays.
because they practice.
是因为他们平时在练习。
if you have the same members over time.
情况下进行那样的练习。
the definition of a team,
reasonably small group of people
相对比较小的一组人。
in achieving a shared outcome.
as a kind of pickup game in the park,
在公园里的临时发起的比赛,
well-practiced team.
to win in a playoff?
more and more of us have to work today.
需要以这种方式工作。
快节奏的全球企业中,
with different people all the time
和其他不同的人
by all means do it.
of the work we do today,
a lot of my research over the years.
都是在这里进行的。
have to be open 24/7.
they're all different.
in complicated and unique ways.
by 60 or so different caregivers
different specialties,
know each other's name.
for the patient to get great care.
the results can be tragic.
就会有惨剧发生。
the stakes aren't always life and death.
并不总是涉及生死。
to create an animated film,
一部获奖的动画电影时
to go to Disney Animation
科学家和艺术家,
changing configurations
人员配置中通过团队合作
一样伟大的作品。
and never the same group twice,
从来没有两组人是同样的,
in the emergency room
又有很多相似之处。
they have a lot in common.
获得不同的专业知识,
at different times,
you don't have fixed deliverables,
that have never been done before,
必需的工作方式,
the way many of us have to work,
that it's especially needed
保罗 · 波尔曼说得很好,
put this really well
是如此巨大,如此具有挑战性,
are so big and so challenging,
we can't do it alone,
in knowing you have to invite people in."
时候,你会有一种谦逊的态度。”
cannot be done by individuals,
是不能由个人来解决的,
to team across big teaming,
zero net energy buildings,
we have the visions,
越发城市化的星球,
becoming a more urban planet,
in various locations,
绿色,宜居,智能的城市。
green, livable, smart cities.
a smart-city software start-up --
一家智能城市的软件初创公司——
with a real estate developer,
some tech companies.
和一些科技公司合作。
a demo smart city from scratch.
演示版的智能城市。
not a whole lot had happened.
并没有多大进度。
across industry boundaries
with this project.
“职业文化冲突”的现象。
and real estate developers
时间框架是很重要的一点——
time frames is a big one --
than most of us realize.
意识到的一个更大的问题。
professional culture clash
the future that we aspire to build.
未来的主要障碍。
我们必须理解的问题,
that we have to understand,
to figure out how to crack.
顺利进行,尤其是大团队?
especially big teaming?
to solve for a number of years
of the answer to this question,
10周的团队合作,
different companies,
进行了多次尝试,
they tried many things,
devastating daily failure,
real challenge ahead,
diverse individuals,
nationality as well,
what each other brings.
哪些方法可能有效。
to learn fast what might work.
into this remarkable story,
他是一个杰出的采矿工程师,
who is a brilliant mining engineer
to lead the rescue.
around the world.
包括我自己,从远处观察着,
including myself, watched from afar,
painful progress through the rock.
缓慢而痛苦地前进。
broke through to the refuge.
they were able to find it
of experimental techniques.
and communication would travel,
they continued the teaming
他们继续着团队合作,
the miners out one by one.
一个一个拉出来。
professional culture clash?
职业文化冲突的呢?
不过让我更详细的解释一下。
but let me be more specific.
that they don't have the answers.
people were very curious,
说的一样,人们很好奇,
一起承担风险。
it's hard to speak up, right?
开口总是很难,对吧?
that might be a stupid idea
the basic human challenge:
基本人类挑战的东西:
就很难继续学习。
to think we know.
倾向于认为自己知道。
and we can do it --
我们能做到这点——
a kind of generosity of interpretation.
一种慷慨的解释。
and you all know it.
而你们都知道它。
if you didn't know it.
你就不会在这个房间里。
《力争上游》里的一句话:
from the movie "The Paper Chase."
is supposed to look like.
Look to your right.
“不是我就是你。”
"It's me or you."
会像那样欢迎新人了,
welcome newcomers that way anymore,
依然会听到这条关于稀缺性的信息。
with that message of scarcity anyway.
那你就很难与他们合作。
inadvertently see others as competitors.
结果会非常棒。
the results can be awesome.
我必须更好地了解他。”
I must get to know him better."
我对他不够了解。
I don't know him well enough.
所需要的心态。
for effective teaming.
我们可以把事情做完。
and reach out and reach across,
no better advice than this:
我认为没有比这更好的建议了:
the unique talents, skills
所拥有的独特才华、
你想要传递的信息?
can you convey what you bring?
我们知道可以通过集体,
to build the future we know we can create
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Amy Edmondson - Leadership expertAmy Edmondson, the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School, studies people and teams seeking to make a positive difference through the work they do.
Why you should listen
Amy Edmondson's work sheds light on the related questions of why teamwork is so critically important in today’s organizations and why it is so challenging.
Long ago, approaching graduation from college, Edmondson took a leap of faith to write an advice-seeking letter to a personal hero. To her surprise, Buckminster Fuller wrote back -- and that set events in motion that would shape her life and work. Fuller's letter arrived, barely a week later, with far more than advice. The iconoclastic inventor, architect and futurist offered her a job. Spending the next three years as Fuller's "chief engineer" working on new geodesic projects, Edmondson developed an intense and enduring interest in big thinking, innovation, and the built environment. Fuller was a visionary, whose ideas about the built environment outpaced reality by decades. His remarkable legacy, however, did not answer the question of how visionaries can make practical progress in the world. Today, one answer to that question is found in teaming – in recognizing its power and its challenges.
Edmondson has been named one of the top management thinkers in the world by Thinkers50 since 2011. Her other awards include the 2004 Accenture Award for significant contribution to improving the practice of management, the Academy of Management’s 2006 Cummings Award for mid-career achievement and the 2017 Thinkers50 Talent Award. Edmondson received her PhD in organizational behavior, AM in psychology and AB in engineering and design, all from Harvard University. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her husband, George Daley, and their two sons.
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