How to build expert teams: Best practices

The Peak Performing Organization

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 129-156

  Weaver, Sallie J ^a   Wildman, Jessica L ^a   Salas, Eduardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203971611     Document Type: Chapter

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