Cross-functional teams : working with allies, enemies, and other strangers / Glenn M. Parker

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1. Why cross-functional teams? -- Part 2. Effective teamwork -- Part 3. Toward cross-functional teams.

Contents: The competitive advantages of cross-functional teams -- Strategy of teams -- Overcoming barriers and obstacles to teamwork -- Leading cross-functional teams -- Empowering teams to do the job -- Setting goals for shared commitments -- Building bridges outside the team -- Appraising teamwork and team members -- Team pay for team play -- Learning as a team event -- Gaining power of small teams-- Techniques for working together as team -- Management's role in building a team-based organization -- Jump-starting the change to cross-functional teams -- Tools for developing cros-functional teams: Experiences in teamwork-- Survey of cross-functional teams: an evaluation tools, Read any good books lately? an annotated reading list, Parker's top ten ways to ensure team failure