title: Confluence and convergence: team effectiveness in complex systems.
abstract: Complex adaptive systems require nursing leadership to rethink organizational work and the viability and effectiveness of teams. Much of emergent thinking about complexity and systems and organizations alter the understanding of the nature and function of teamwork and the configuration and leadership of team effort. Reflecting on basic concepts of complexity and their application to team formation, dynamics, and outcomes lays an important foundation for effectively guiding the strategic activity of systems through the focused tactical action of teams. Basic principles of complexity, their impact on teams, and the fundamental elements of team effectiveness are explored.
authors.affiliation: Tim Porter-O'Grady Associates, Atlanta, Georgia; College of Nursing and Health Innovation, Arizona State University, Phoenix; College of Nursing, the Ohio State University, Columbus; and School of Nursing, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.
authors.forename: Tim
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Porter-OʼGrady
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000592:standards*; D017064:Process Assessment, Health Care / Q000379:methods*