Well,
it turns out that great teams — the most creative, the most innovative — are
more temporary in nature than you would think.
Take Broadway. The best productions,
researchers have found, are made up of rag-tag groups — a mix of old and new
faces. The old faces bring knowledge of the best processes and the best working
methods, and the new folks bring a fresh creative spirit to the table.
The most
innovative companies work in similar ways, too. Ad-hoc teams form around a
given project, then disband. But it’s not so easy pull off — in order for this
to work, the entire organisation has to be diverse enough in order to make
temporary teams a reality.
