{"id":7365,"date":"2026-05-15T05:32:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T21:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moresourcing.com\/what-operating-rooms-can-teach-leaders-about-team-design\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T05:32:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T21:32:24","slug":"what-operating-rooms-can-teach-leaders-about-team-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moresourcing.com\/en\/what-operating-rooms-can-teach-leaders-about-team-design\/","title":{"rendered":"What Operating Rooms Can Teach Leaders About Team Design\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-module-scss-module__UwInRW__text\" data-first-paragraph=\"true\">As companies in all industries adopt new technologies to assist teams, they should keep in mind that the experiences of the team\u2019s members working with each other in the past still matter a lot. A study of surgeries at a mid-sized hospital in Madrid, Spain, reinforced that point and generated other insights into how best to staff teams.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async=\"\" defer=\"\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#version=v19.2&amp;appId=1761258887507575&amp;xfbml=false&amp;status=true\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>#Operating #Rooms #Teach #Leaders #Team #Design<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As companies in all industries adopt new technologies to assist teams, they should keep in mind that the experiences of the team\u2019s members working with each other in the past still matter a lot. A study of surgeries at a mid-sized hospital in Madrid, Spain, reinforced that point and generated other insights into how best [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-management"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.7.1 (Yoast SEO v25.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What Operating Rooms Can Teach Leaders About Team Design\u00a0 - MORE SOURCING LTD<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A study of surgeries at a hospital in Madrid and a subsequent pilot program there offers lessons for any organization that relies on fluid, high-pressure teams. 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