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????商業(yè)活動日益成為一種團(tuán)隊運(yùn)動：比如哈佛商學(xué)院（Harvard Business School）朱莉?沃爾夫的報告稱，過去20年間，直接對公司CEO負(fù)責(zé)的職位數(shù)量翻了一番，平均為9.8個。而且，如今的高管團(tuán)隊成員不再是業(yè)務(wù)部門的總經(jīng)理那么簡單，他們的身份更偏重于各自領(lǐng)域的專家——市場營銷高手、技術(shù)達(dá)人、人力資源主管、設(shè)計師等。換句話說，他們才是一只真正各司其職的團(tuán)隊。

????兩年以來，《財富》雜志（Fortune）的編輯們一直有一個疑問：最終的高管夢之隊會是什么樣？（我們同時也邀請讀者參加一個在線競賽，選出他們自己心目中的夢之隊。）我們希望每一位夢之隊成員都是表現(xiàn)最為突出的高管，都是各自領(lǐng)域的頂尖人才，但與此同時，我們也必須考慮他們之間的化學(xué)反應(yīng)和每個人是否具備運(yùn)動員一般的體育道德精神。所以，雖然甲骨文（Oracle）CEO拉里?埃里森憑借在收購方面的杰出才能，成為最受讀者認(rèn)可的首席策略師，但《財富》雜志認(rèn)為，他更適合單打獨(dú)斗，并不適合我們的高管夢之隊。

????我們的團(tuán)隊將由九位身經(jīng)百戰(zhàn)的優(yōu)秀隊員組成，他們將組成一支最強(qiáng)大的隊伍。要為每個位置找出最適合的人選，并不比選出九位全明星高管容易多少。但這種能力也是所有公司不可或缺的。

????—— 杰夫?科爾文

????The starting lineup

????Business is increasingly a team sport: Consider that the number of positions reporting directly to the CEO at Fortune 500 companies has doubled in the past 20 years, to 9.8 on average, reports Julie Wulf of the Harvard Business School. That top team is now far more heavily weighted toward functional specialists -- marketers, technologists, HR chiefs, designers -- and less toward general managers of business units. In other words: a real team.

????For the second year in a row, Fortune's editors pondered the question, What would the ultimate executive suite look like? (We also asked our readers to field their own dream teams in an online contest.) We wanted a team of really excellent performers, the tops in their professions, but we also factored in chemistry and sportsmanship. So while Oracle CEO Larry Ellison was the reader favorite for chief strategist because of his acquisition prowess, Fortune thought he was too much of a lone wolf to sit on our squad.

????Our team is meant to be nine knockout players who would form one staggeringly great unit. Fitting all those pieces together is a lot harder than just choosing nine all-stars. But it's a skill that all businesses are going to need.

????--Geoff Colvin