High-Performance Teams (HPTs) is a concept within organization development referring to teams and organizations that are highly focused on their goals and that achieve superior business results. High-performance teams outperform other similar teams and gained popular acceptance in the US by the 1980s, with adoption by many organizations. (Katzenback 2003.) However, without understanding the underlying dynamics that created them, and without adequate time and resources to develop them, most of these attempts failed. With this failure, HPTs fell out of general favor by 1995, and the term high-performance began to be used in a promotional context, rather than a performance-based one. (Hanlan 2004.)\r
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Within the past 10 to 15 years some private sector and government sector organizations have placed new focus on HPTs, as new studies and understandings have identified the key processes and team dynamics necessary to create all-around quantum performance improvements. (Katzenbach et al 2000.) With these new tools, organizations such as Kraft Foods, General Electric, Exelon, and the US government have focused new attention on high-performance teams.
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