The leader's role in building collaborative teams

The future requires a new way of leading. The team concept has been recognized as playing a principle role in this new order, but teams mistakenly have either been added or overlaid on existing responsibilities and ways of doing business and often have not been as effective as intended. Therefore, there needs to be a fundamental change in the entire concept of organization structure itself, and a paradigm shift in the way we think about teams. Teams must be truly collaborative. The collaborative team structure is presented as the way to successfully adapt to the challenges of the late 1990s and the 21st century.