Wisdom of Teams Creating the High-Performance Organization

Name: Wisdom of Teams Creating the High-Performance Organization
Price: 2.54 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780060522001

ISBN-10: 0060522003

ISBN-13: 9780060522001

Edition: 2003

Authors: Jon R. Katzenbach, Douglas K. Smith

List price: $17.99

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Marketplace

5 new & used from $2.54

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

Teams -- the key to top performance Motorola relied heavily on teams to surpass its competition in building the lightest, smallest, and highest-quality cell phones. At 3M, teams are critical to meeting the company's goal of producing half of each year's revenues from the previous five years' innovations. Kodak's Zebra Team proved the worth of black-and-white film manufacturing in a world where color is king. But many companies overtook the potential of teams in turning around tagging profits, entering new markets, and making exciting innovations happen -- because they don't know how to utilize teams successfully. Authors Jon R. Katzenbach and Douglas K. Smith talked with hundreds of…

Book details

List price: $17.99
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 7/25/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



Authors' Note


Acknowledgments


Introduction: What We Have Learned


Prologue: A Note About What to Expect



Understanding Teams



Why Teams?



One Team: A Story of Performance



Team Basics: A Working Definition and Discipline



High-Performance Teams: Very Useful Models



Becoming A Team



The Team Performance Curve



Moving up the Curve: From Individual to Team Performance



Team Leaders



Teams, Obstacles, and Endings: Getting Unstuck



Exploiting the Potential



Teams and Performance: The Reinforcing Cycle



Teams and Major Change: An Inevitable Combination



Team Performance at the Top: A Difficult Challenge



Top Management's Role: Leading to the High-Performance Organization


Epilogue: A Call to Action



The Teams Question and Answer Guide



Teams Researched for Book


Selected Readings


Index