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Tham khảo tài liệu 'fundamentals of project management worksmart by james p. lewis_9', kinh doanh - tiếp thị, quản trị kinh doanh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 166 Fundamentals of Project Management simply because they are the best available people not because they are the best people for the job. When this happens they may have no commitment to the team. In their book Organizations March and Simon present five rules for developing commitment to a team or organization. Those rules are 1. Have team members interact frequently so that they gain a sense of being a team. 2. Be sure that individual needs are being met through participation in the team. 3. Let all members know why the project is important. People don t like working on a loser. 4. Make sure all members share the goals of the team. One bad apple can spoil the barrel. 5. Keep competition within the team to a minimum. Competition and cooperation are opposites. Let members compete with people outside the team not within it. Note that the first rule cannot always be followed if the team is scattered geographically. In that case members should meet frequently through teleconferencing videoconferencing and or an Internet-based tool. It is almost im- possible to think of yourself as part of a team if the team never gets together in some manner. Watch the movie Stand and Deliver for an excellent A Final Suggestion If you want some good models of how to work with teams take a look at the best coaches and see how they do it. Be care- example of true leadership. ful though not to model the supermacho coach s behavior. That might work okay with a sports team where people are there American Management Association I Managing the Project Team 167 because they want to be there but it is unlikely to work well with a project team where the members are there because they have to be. I also suggest that you watch the movie Stand and Deliver and see how Jaime Escalante deals with his kids. Then the next time you are tempted to complain that you have a lot of responsibility and no authority ask yourself how a teacher who has even less authority than you do can get a .