The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization - Rilegato

Katzenbach, Jon R; Smith, Douglas K

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ISBN 10: 0875843670 ISBN 13: 9780875843674

Casa editrice: Harvard Business School Press, 1992

Riassunto

Teams are fast becoming a flexible and efficient way to enhance organizational performance. Yet today's business leaders consistently overlook opportunities to exploit their potential, confusing teams with teamwork or sharing. In this book, two senior McKinsey & Co. partners argue that we cannot meet the challenges ahead, from total quality to customer service to innovation, without teams. The authors talked with hundreds of people in more than fifty different teams in thirty companies to discover what differentiates various levels of team performance, where and how teams work best, and how to enhance their effectiveness. Among their findings: formal hierarchy is actually good for teams; successful team leaders fit no ideal profile; commitment to performance goals is more important than commitment to team-building goals; top management teams are often smaller and more difficult to sustain; and team endings can be as important to manage as team beginnings. The wisdom of teams lies in recognizing their unique potential to deliver results and in understanding their many benefits.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Jon R. Katzenbach has been with McKinsey & Company, Inc. for more than three decades, and since the mid-1980's has led the firm's worldwide organization performance and change practice.

Contenuti:

Acknowledgements
Prologue A Note About What to Expect
Part One Understanding Teams
Chapter 1 Why Teams?
Chapter 2 One Team: A Story of Performance
Chapter 3 Team Basics: A Working Definition and Discipline
Chapter 4 High-Performance Teams: Very Useful Models
Part Two Becoming a Team
Chapter 5 The Team Performance Curve
Chapter 6 Moving up the Curve: From Individual to Team Performance
Chapter 7 Team Leaders
Chapter 8 Teams, Obstacles, and Endings: Getting Unstuck
Part Three Exploiting the Potential
Chapter 9 Teams and Performance: The Reinforcing Cycle
Chapter 10 Teams and Major Change: An Inevitable Combination
Chapter 11 Teams at the Top: A Difficult Choice
Chapter 12 Top Management's Role: Leading to the High-Performance Organization
Epilogue A Call to Action
Appendix Teams Researched for Book
Selected Readings
Index

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Harvard Business School Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0875843670
• ISBN 13: 9780875843674
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 304