Gone are the days of static organizational charts and staffing based on the manager's own rolodex.  Data, remote work, and online platforms are transforming how teams work. Now, you can recruit any expertise you need from a global online network: an on-demand, on-the-spot expert at the exact moment that you need their help. And, you can right-size their involvement: some of those experts give a second-opinion or a moment of brainstorming, while others join as full-fledged team members for a sustained collaborative effort.

Today's teams work in a world where experts are available anytime and everywhere, where remote work has become a norm, and where data can be in-the-loop to guide team decisions.  In this world, teams can now involve experts on demand, can become much more adaptive, and can become self-improving.  But getting there requires a new mindset and fundamentally new approaches to teams and teaming.  

This book is essential for navigating the opportunities and challenges teams and managers face. Melissa Valentine and Michael Bernstein from Stanford University distill lessons that every manager can learn from their work assembling and managing flash teams on demand.  Drawing on their research as well as industry examples, Valentine and Bernstein explain how managers now have new ways of recognizing and sourcing needed expertise, anticipating and planning team designs, and redesigning those team structures on the fly as projects evolve. Industries are already being transformed by this new approach to teaming, and new opportunities, challenges, and responsibilities are arising. This book arms leaders, managers, and entrepreneurs with the tools they need.