Flash Teams

Leading the Future of AI-Enhanced, On-Demand Work

Melissa Valentine, Michael Bernstein (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2025
MIT Press (Verlag)
978-0-262-04984-9 (ISBN)

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A USA Today Bestseller. A dramatic new future of work in which managers assemble exactly the expertise they need within minutes. 'If you ve ever wished you could assemble your version of The Avengers at work, this book will help you make it happen.' Adam Grant, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Think Again and host of the podcast Re:Thinking. Gone are the days of static organizational charts and staffing based on the manager s rolodex and intuition. Now you can recruit any expertise you need from a global online network within minutes: an on-demand, on-the-spot expert at the exact moment that you need their help. You can right-size their involvement, too; some of those experts give a second opinion or a moment of brainstorming, whereas others join as full-fledged team members for a sustained collaborative effort. This is the future promised by flash teams, a model that The New York Times has already praised for its 'revolutionary potential': a world where experts are available anytime and everywhere, where remote work has become a norm, and where AI is in the loop to guide team decisions. In Flash Teams, award-winning management scholar Melissa Valentine and computer scientist Michael Bernstein chart the opportunities of flash teams and navigate the challenges that teams and managers will face. They distill lessons from their own work assembling and managing flash teams on demand that every manager can learn from so they can successfully use flash teams in their own organizations. Drawing on original research and industry examples, this book will help readers to: Recognize and source needed expertise within minutes. Anticipate and plan team designs with AI. Redesign team structures on the fly as projects evolve. Industries are already being transformed by this new approach to teaming. Flash Teams arms leaders, managers, and entrepreneurs with the tools they need to accomplish their goals with confidence, speed, and agility.

Michael S. Bernstein is Associate Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, where he is a Bass University Fellow. His research has been reported in venues such as The New York Times, Wired, Science, and Nature, and he has been recognized with an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, UIST Lasting Impact Award, and the Computer History Museum s Patrick J. McGovern Tech for Humanity Prize. Melissa Valentine is Associate Professor of Management Science at Stanford University, where she codirects the Center for Work, Technology, and Organization. She has been awarded an NSF CAREER award, and her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Wired, Fast Company, and Financial Times.

Dedication
Introduction
Visions of Better Teams
Out of Reach?
Lessons from Flash Teams
Lesson One: Your Bench is Much Deeper Than you Think
Lesson Two: Your Team Can Become Much More Adaptive Than You Think
Lesson Three: Your Team Can Improve When In the Loop With Data and AI; But Expect That Reflection and Repair Matter Most
A Future We’d Want Our Children To Grow Up In?
Lesson One: Your Bench is Much Deeper Than you Think; But You’ll Need Different Tools to Engage and Deploy These Experts
Experts Everywhere, All The Time
The Forgotten Power of Role Clarity
Rapid Response: The Tactics of Hiring and Onboarding In A Jiffy
Getting The Right Team At The Right Time
Lesson Two: Your Team Can Become Much More Adaptive Than You Think
Designing Teams to Dynamically Adapt
Mobilizing Hierarchy for Dynamic Adaptation
Connecting the Dots: Mobilizing Hierarchy as Network for Change
In Search of the Dream Team: How AI Can Enhance Dynamic Adaptation
Lesson Three: Your Team Can Improve When in the Loop With Data and AI; But Expect That Reflection and Repair Matter Most
AI Augmented Flash Team Design
Learn from Ratings: But Mind the Community Norms
Learn the Social Art of Collaborative Repair
Training Your Team With AI
How Do We Get to AI-Augmented Management (Not AI-Managers)
Can This Be Good for Society?
Our Society is Organized around… Organizations
Conclusion: An Incomplete Remote Revolution
Acknowledgements
Back Paragraph
Notes
Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	07.10.2025
Zusatzinfo	19 FIGURES
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Künstliche Intelligenz / Robotik
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Planung / Organisation
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	0-262-04984-8 / 0262049848
ISBN-13	978-0-262-04984-9 / 9780262049849
Zustand	Neuware