Never before in the history of the workplace has the concept of teamwork been more important to the functioning of successful organizations. Ken Blanchard bestselling coauthor of Raving Fans, The One Minute Manager, and Gung Ho! teams up with Donald Carew and Eunice Parisi-Carew to explain how all groups move through four stages of development on their way to becoming high performance teams -- orientation, dissatisfaction, integration, and production. The authors then show how a manager can help any group to become fully effective quickly and with hardly any stress.
The valuable addition to The One Minute Manager® Library is essential for anyone who works with groups and wants to build a high performing team.
Never before in the history of the workplace has the concept of teamwork been more important to the functioning of successful organizations. Bestselling author Ken Blanchard and his two collaborators explain how all groups move through four stages of development on their way to becoming a high performing team-Orientation, Dissatisfaction, Integration, and Production. They then show how a manager can help any group become fully effective sooner and with much less stress.
This valuable addition to The One Minute Manager. Library is essential for anyone who works with groups and wants to build a high performing team.
Ken Blanchard is the coauthor of The One Minute Manager® and fifty other books, including the New York Times business bestsellers Gung Ho! and Raving Fans. His books have combined sales of more than eighteen million copies in more than twenty-seven languages. He is the chief spiritual officer of The Ken Blanchard Companies, a full-service global management training and development company that he and his wife, Dr. Marjorie Blanchard, founded in 1979.
Eunice Parisi-Carew is a recognized leader in team building, leadership and organizational change. A former faculty member at the University of Hartford and American University, she is also cocreator of the High Performing Teams product line offered by The Ken Blanchard Companies. Currently she is senior researcher with the Office of the Future at The Ken Blanchard Companies, studying future trends and their implications for leaders, organizations and business practices.
Don Carew has earned a reputation as a top authority on group dynamics and team building. He is a professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, where he directed and taught in the graduate program on organization development from 1965 to 1994. He is a founding consulting partner of The Ken Blanchard Companies and a cocreator of the company's High Performing Teams product line.
