Virtuoso Teams: Lessons From Teams That Changed Their Worlds - Hardcover

Boynton, Andy; Fischer, Bill

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0273702181 ISBN 13: 9780273702184

Publisher: Ft Pr, 2005

Synopsis

With Virtuoso Teams you can transform any enterprise.  This is a book about effectively managing and leading teams that are catalysts for big change and breakthrough performances.

Whether you’re launching an innovative new product or service, entering into challenging new markets or simply trying to transform the way you operate, Virtuoso Teams can make the difference between achieving remarkable success, or just another modest result.

 

• Teams is a steady area in business, but there is nothing out there with this kind of punch or invention.
• The case studies are absolutely fascinating and take center stage.  While the primary market will be executives and managers who assemble teams (and the team members themselves) the tertiary market will be serial business book buyers who can¿t believe they can have a book with such fabulous and wide-ranging stories. 
• The stories of the great teams are unbroken by commentary.  The authors weigh in with the management commentary and tips at the end of each chapter, and provide readers with questions that get readers thinking about the steps they need to take to build VT¿s.
• The authors are consultants and Professors at one of the world¿s finest executive education centres:  IMD in Switzerland.

About this title

About the Author

Bill Fischer is Professor of Technology Management at IMD, and has been executive president and dean of the China-Europe International Business School (CEIBS), in Shanghai, China.

From the Back Cover

Lead a very special kind of team. The virtuoso team.

At the heart of a great change or creative breakthrough you will often find a dynamic team of inspired individuals who work together to break out of the commonplace and make something remarkable happen.  A team that generates more creativity, more energy and the very best performance. The rules of the game are different for virtuoso teams and their leaders. From transforming jazz music to triumphing in polar exploration, they can explode “work as usual” if let free to make it happen.

This book will show you how to play to the standards of some of the greatest uncompromising, creative and catalytic teams of our times.

 

"I never thought I would be extolling the virtues of a book on Virtuoso Teams unless it specifically pertained to baseball. Nevertheless here I am praising a book on the advisability of developing Virtuoso Teams regardless of the type of organization in which you belong.

If you aspire to develop an organization of high-performers or take an organization of high-performers to an even higher 'next level' Andy Boynton and Bill Fischer's Virtuoso Teams is a definite must read!”

 

George M. Steinbrenner III, Owner and Managing General Partner, New York Yankees Baseball Club

 

Edition details

• Publisher: Ft Pr
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0273702181
• ISBN 13: 9780273702184
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 205