Replying to LO20882
Dear LO'ers,
I was inspired by the message of Koebelin, however I did not copy parts of
this, since my inspiration is not directly linked.
A team is a multi-individual group which shows group consistancy over a
longer period in a dynamic environment, usually generating new products.
I wondered that the name of Meredith Belbin is not yet mentioned.Here in
Europe his theory of the 8 or 9 team roles is very popular and probably
also known in other parts of the world. Belbin has observed in successful
teams that 8 characters should be present.
Since a team as a whole acts as a creative organism, I was wondering if
the team roles as Belbin has defined, show some parallels with the 7
essentialities of At de Lange. Although not always straight forward, I
think there are.
BELBIN TEAM DE LANGE ESSENTIALITIES
Shaper: "becoming-being" (liveness)
Team worker "open-paradigm" (openness)
Plant "connect-beget" (fruitfulness)
Monitor/evaluator "quantity-limit" (spareness)
Resource investigator "associativity-monadicity" (wholeness)
Company worker "identity-categoricity" (sureness)
Completer/finisher "quality-variety" (otherness)
Chairman
I realise that it is not always a one to one relation, but there are
enough parallels.
Usually, human beings have more than one team role in their character.
That's why there are successful teams with less than 8 persons. However,
within a limited team, attention should be given to all the roles. A good
example of a very successful team, composed of only four members are the
Beatles.
Just some thoughts.
dr. Leo D. Minnigh
minnigh@library.tudelft.nl
Library Technical University Delft
PO BOX 98, 2600 MG Delft, The Netherlands
Tel.: 31 15 2782226
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