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Team learning: Responding to organizational and environmental complexity

In: Destructive goal pursuit: The mount everest disaster

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  • D Christopher Kayes

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You are trapped. You made it to the top of the world’s highest mountain, but now you struggle with your teammates to get down. You are caught in a blinding storm and your body is about to give out. Even though you are only a few hundred yards from a safe camp, with tents and oxygen, you cannot navigate through the blinding storm that engulfs you. You begin to rely heavily on your teammates—members of other teams, who were once your competition, may be your only chance to survive. You try to talk to team members but soon realize the difficulties of communicating in a blinding storm. The wind, snow, and craziness of the situation make verbal communication almost impossible. You try hand signals but those too are difficult to see in the blinding snow. Normal modes of communication have broken down.

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  • D Christopher Kayes, 2006. "Team learning: Responding to organizational and environmental complexity," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Destructive goal pursuit: The mount everest disaster, chapter 9, pages 111-127, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-50347-2_9
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230503472_9
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