There are many factors that play a role in finding the best fit for your team. Whose skills, connections, and expertise will best prepare your team for the task ahead? Does your effort require representation from key organizations and stakeholders in order to succeed?

To make matters more complicated, your team will undoubtedly need to shift and evolve as your understanding of your effort grows. Just as your team will work to define the problem you are facing, the problem itself will define who is best for the team.

How are you selecting the members of your cross-boundary coalition? Are you holding them loosely in order to evolve your team with the task at hand?