CONCEPT
Teaming
Edmondson's term for the dynamic activity of teamwork across boundaries — collaboration as verb rather than noun, and the organizational capability the AI transition most demands.
Teaming is Edmondson's reconceptualization of teamwork for environments where stable teams are no longer possible. Traditional team research assumed that effective collaboration required stable membership, shared history, and time to develop norms. Much contemporary work no longer permits these conditions. People must collaborate with colleagues they have not worked with before, across disciplines they have not studied, on problems whose shape is not yet clear. Teaming is the capability of doing this quickly and well — of forming effective working relationships in real time, under uncertainty, with people whose expertise differs from one's own. The AI transition has made the capability foundational because the boundaries between specialties are dissolving faster than stable teams can be assembled around them.
In The You On AI Field Guide
The Trivandrum training documented in You On AI is a case of teaming in its most generative form. Backend engineers began building user interfaces. Designers began writing features end to end. These boundary crossings are not evidence of generalism. They are evidence of the teaming