# Managing Groups and Teams/Introduction

## Foreword

It is often remarked that groups are everywhere, whether in our social
lives, our work lives, or even our families. In each of these
situations, sets of individuals decide to work collectively to achieve
particular goals.

However, although groups are everywhere and we participate in them
constantly, we do not understand them very well. Many of us can tell
stories of groups that seemed perfect for a given task, but which
failed. And we all have reasons (or excuses) that explain such failures.

But our experiences in groups suffer precisely because we are with them.

The study of groups as a phenomenon that is unique and different from
other social phenomena is very active, reflecting both the importance it
has and how much we still don\'t know about groups. `<small>`{=html}S M
Rizwsan Clinical Psychologist ANF`</small>`{=html}

## About this Book

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In this book, we take a challenge-based approach to dealing with groups.
Many other books provide conceptual and descriptive treatments of groups
and teams. Here we will take a prescriptive perspective, one that
focuses on the \"how to\" of managing a group or a team. This
prescriptive perspective, however, will be rooted in social science.

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