Better Business, 5/e

Objective 8-3 Teamwork

1. Explain the best ways to create, manage, and participate in teams.

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There is probably no team you want to be more efficient, communicative, and effective than an operating room team performing surgery on you. It’s not uncommon for an operating room team to be comprised of seven or more members who have never met each other before the day of the surgery. As medicine has become more sophisticated, even the most routine tasks have become so complicated that mistakes are all too common. Dr. Atul ...