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This chapter has emphasized that project team members are challenged to work interdependently to solve many problems. These problems can be simple or complex, but every project is, essentially, a series of decisions to make and problems to solve. The greater our team's need to work interdependently, the more we need to trust each other and the more we need the skills to work together. Since project teams are temporary, each project team must learn to work together.

The topic of team leadership is large and covers far more than we can address in this single chapter.^[] For that reason, we have limited our scope to presenting a framework of specific skills and attributes that are necessary in a high-performing team.

^[] An excellent reference on the topic of high-performance teams is Peter R. Scholtes, Brian L. Joiner, and Barbara J. Streibel, The Team Handbook (Madison, WI: Oriel Inc., 1996).