Companies are eager these days to emphasise that they are organised around teams. A recent series of advertisements for Microsoft featured teams of employees from the giant software company getting excited about the various projects on which they were working together. Headhunters are increasingly being asked to assemble teams of top executives, not merely to find a single high-performing CEO. And the bosses themselves are expected to be good at putting together teams. David Nadler, the founder and head of Mercer Delta, has recently published a book called "Building Better Boards" arguing that it is time for the corporate board to reinvent itself "and become a high-performing team offering real value to the company".
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