High-Performance Individuals and Teams: A Study of the Effect of Duration on Achievable and Sustainable Maximum Performance Levels

High-performance teams are required for leading-type organizations because of the complexity and speed that work must be completed. This paper extends the fundamental groundwork-research of creating and achieving high-performance teams and individuals by introducing and investigating a new variable, duration, on the absolute values of high-performance achieved. Experimental results identify that Pmax decreases with duration for both teams and individuals and that teams are indeed more effective than individuals in performing tasks.