The Discipline of Teams

Katzenbach & Smith · Team Learning · Harvard Business Review · 1993 · Open access

The HBR article (later expanded into a book) that defined what distinguishes real teams from working groups. Argues that teams require mutual accountability, complementary skills, and common commitment to shared goals — not just shared values or cooperative culture. The discipline of teams is a performance discipline, not a social one.

Katzenbach, J.R. and Smith, D.K. (1993) 'The discipline of teams', Harvard Business Review, 71(2), pp. 111–120.

Neighbours (6)

• Psychological Safety and Learning Behavior in Work Teams (paper)
• Psychological Safety: A Meta-Analytic Review and Extension (paper)
• Collective Responsibility
• Contracting & Recontracting
• High Performing Teams
• Tuckman's Model