Book description
Most teams underperform. Yours can beat the odds.
If you read nothing else on building better teams, read these 10 articles. We’ve combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you assemble and steer teams that get results.
Leading experts such as Jon Katzenbach, Teresa Amabile, and Tamara Erickson provide the insights and advice you need to:
- Boost team performance through mutual accountability
- Motivate large, diverse groups to tackle complex projects
- Increase your teams’ emotional intelligence
- Prevent decision deadlock
- Extract results from a bunch of touchy superstars
- Fight constructively with top-management colleagues
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- The New Science of Building Great Teams
- Why Teams Don’t Work: An Interview with J. Richard Hackman
- The Discipline of Teams
- Eight Ways to Build Collaborative Teams
- The Power of Small Wins
- Building the Emotional Intelligence of Groups
- Managing Multicultural Teams
- When Teams Can’t Decide
- Virtuoso Teams
- How Management Teams Can Have a Good Fight
- About the Contributors
- Index
Product information
- Title: HBR's 10 Must Reads on Teams (with featured article "The Discipline of Teams," by Jon R. Katzenbach and Douglas K. Smith)
- Author(s):
- Release date: March 2013
- Publisher(s): Harvard Business Review Press
- ISBN: 9781422191460
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