Chapter 13, Problem 1BCE Conceptual skills require you to think in the abstract.

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Chapter 13, Problem 1BCE

Conceptual skills require you to think in the abstract. This exercise will allow you to practice your conceptual skills as they apply to the activities of work teams in organizations. (Griffin). Business organizations, of course, don't have a monopoly on effective groups. Basketball teams and military squadrons are teams, as is a government policy group such as the president's cabinet, the leadership of a church or civic organization, or even a student committee.

1. Use the Internet to identify an example of a real-life team. Be sure to choose one that meets two criteria: (1) it’s not part of a for-profit business, and (2) you can argue that it’s highly effective.

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The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) is an American non-profit and charitable organization headquartered in San Francisco, California. It is mostly known for participating in the Wikimedia movement. It owns the internet domain names of most movement projects and hosts sites like Wikipedia. The foundation was founded in 2003 by Jimmy Wales as a way to fund Wikipedia and its sister projects through non-profit means.

Alexa website ranking has given Global rank 7 & USA rank 6 to wikipedia.org

The Wikimedia Foundation's stated goal is to develop and maintain open content, wiki-based projects and to provide the full contents of those projects to the public free of charge. Employing 280 people team to maintain the high quality content useful to the users, wikipedia.org seems to have succeded in its goal of dissemination of knowledge, at least till now.

The leadership & teams have followed if not all, at least some of the following practices to ensure the success of wikipedia.org:

Leadership is emotionally intelligent – trustworthy, persuasive, perceptive and flexible.
Team is ensures the commitment to the big-picture vision of organization at every level
Collaborates with people (millions of users update wiki articles) and organizations that can help to advance the cause.
Fundraise and encourage the board to do so too. (wiki keeps running messages on pages to ask money from users)
Clarify board and staff relationships and encourage open communications.
Embrace participation, build strong teams and encourage risk taking.

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