From Group to Team: A Guide to High-Performing Management Teams - Softcover

Ylander, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9153151348 ISBN 13: 9789153151340

Publisher: John Ylander, 2025

Synopsis

Transform your management team from a group of individuals into a unified force that drives innovation, results, and organizational success.

In From Group to Team, John Ylander presents a powerful framework that equips leaders with the strategies and tools needed to build and sustain high-performing teams. This practical book combines insightful theory with real-world case studies, offering leaders the tools to transform fragmented groups into unified, collaborative powerhouses.

Key Benefits:

• Transform Your Team Dynamics: Learn the step-by-step process to shift from disjointed group dynamics to a well-coordinated, high-functioning management team.
• Foster Collaboration and Trust: Understand how to create an environment of trust, open communication, and synergy that fuels team success.
• Elevate Team Performance: Leverage the Management Team Assessment Model (MTAM) to measure, evaluate, and enhance team capabilities.
• Clarify and Align Team Mission: Gain insight into aligning your team’s mission with broader organizational goals for greater impact.
• Lead in Uncertainty: Master the skills to manage teams through complex and unpredictable business challenges with confidence.

Whether you're forming a new team or optimizing an existing one, From Group to Team offers the insights you need to achieve long-lasting success.

Unlock your team's full potential—grab your copy of From Group to Team and start leading with impact today!

About this title

About the Author

John Ylander is a Swedish management consultant, researcher, and author with more than twenty years of experience working with leadership teams across both the public and private sector. Throughout his career, he has focused on understanding why some management groups thrive while others struggle, and how leadership teams can build the clarity, trust, and alignment required to guide an organization effectively.
 
He is the creator of the Group Communication Model, a research-based framework designed to reveal how management teams actually function in practice—their structure, communication patterns, decision-making processes, and collective behavior. The model has become a widely used tool among consultants and leadership developers who work with executive teams seeking to improve performance and collaboration.
 
Over the years, John has trained and certified hundreds of senior consultants in Sweden, Canada, and Germany, helping them apply his methodology to real leadership challenges. His work sits at the intersection of leadership, communication, psychology, and organizational effectiveness, and is grounded in the belief that management teams must evolve from groups of capable individuals into cohesive units with shared purpose and responsibility.
 
John's writing reflects this blend of analytical depth and practical experience. He combines clear conceptual structure with concrete examples from his work with leadership teams, emphasizing not only what management teams need to do, but how they must work together to create sustainable results. His professional background also includes research, executive education, and advisory roles in complex organizations, giving him a broad and nuanced understanding of the realities leaders face.
 
From Group to Team is his first book in English and represents the culmination of more than a decade of research, fieldwork, and development aimed at strengthening the performance and impact of management teams.

From the Back Cover

John Ylander, PhD, is a seasoned management consultant, entrepreneur, and reserve officer with a PhD in economics. He led the largest executive MBA program in the Nordic region for five years, providing unparalleled insight into leadership, strategy, and organizational behavior. In 2012, John developed the Management Team Assessment Model (MTAM), a cornerstone tool for fostering high-performing management teams.

His career spans consulting and research in the private sector, state-owned enterprises, and municipal organizations, giving him a comprehensive view of the challenges leaders face.

John has certified hundreds of senior consultants who implement MTAM across Canada, Sweden, and Germany. Known for his analytical depth and pragmatic approach, John emphasizes the importance of creating a culture of trust and collaboration to drive sustainable change.

Through this book, he aims to guide leaders in building resilient, cohesive management teams capable of navigating complexity, providing practical insights and actionable strategies for lasting organizational growth.

From the Inside Flap

Most management groups are not true teams — and this book explains why.

From Group to Team provides a clear, research-based framework that helps leaders understand what a management team actually is, how it should work, and what separates high-performing leadership teams from ordinary groups.

Through practical tools, real-world insights, and a guiding narrative, the book shows how any management group can build clarity, alignment, and collective responsibility.

A practical roadmap for leaders who want more than meetings — they want a team.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Ylander
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9153151348
• ISBN 13: 9789153151340
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320