The Work of Teams - Hardcover

Edited; Katzenbach, An Introduction By Jon R.

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ISBN 10: 0875848680 ISBN 13: 9780875848686

Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press, 1998

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A collection of articles discussing the context for, the alternatives to, and the conditions that surround and encourage effective team performance in organizations

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If you're struggling to boost teamwork at your company, put Jon R. Katzenbach on your side. In The Work of Teams, Katzenbach features 14 inspiring essays on the topic from the Harvard Business Review. Some of the nation's leading business-school professors and management pros offer cogent and valuable advice on how companies and their employees can excel by learning how to work together. A noted business strategist, Katzenbach coauthors a piece that recommends some precise steps for getting teams to achieve more and produce superior products. He warns, for example, that teams often fail unless they stick to specific performance standards and set goals. When groups are aiming for certain results, choices can be difficult. In another essay, "The Parable of the Sadhu," retired Morgan Stanley director Bowen H. McCoy writes that he and other hikers were so intent on reaching the next Himalayan peak that they left an Indian holy man possibly to die. He writes, "We cannot quit our jobs over every ethical dilemma, but if we continually ignore our sense of values, who do we become?" Perhaps the book's best criticism comes from Bechtel scientist Genevieve Segol, who dissects a business team plagued by vague goals and weak leadership. This collection is for top managers, students, or anyone working for a company that values people skilled at working effectively with others. --Dan Ring

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"The work of teams is just plain hard; it need not, however, be complex. In fact, a team is a simple unit-perhaps the most basic performance unit in any organization other than individual performers. Moreover, because a team is a natural unit formed to address issues requiring multiple skills and leadership roles, it has been relied on literally for centuries.... The simplicity of the team concept is what makes it so powerful-when it is pursued with discipline and resolve." -From the introduction by Jon R. Katzenbach
CONTRIBUTORS
Linda M. Applegate
James D. Berkley
L.J. Bourgeois III
H. Kent Bowen
John C. Carter
James I. Cash, Jr.,
Kim B. Clark
Kathleen M. Eisenhardt
Jeffrey R. Hanson
Charles A. Holloway
Thomas M. Hout
Jean L. Kahwajy
Jon R. Katzenback
David Krackhardt
Dorothy Leonard-Barton
Bowen H. McCoy
Christopher Meyer
D. Quinn Mills
Nitin Nohria
Robert B. Reich
Douglas K. Smith
Karl Weick
Suzy Wetlaufer
Steven C. Wheelwright
Abraham Zaleznick

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