by R. Bruce Williams (1993)
Does your team have a difficult time making a decision? Are you trying to build cohesiveness within your team? Are you looking for ways to focus your team's energy? More Than 50 Ways to Build Team Consensus has the answers. This must-have book provides a wide variety of practical ideas, strategies and techniques for both new and experienced team leaders to build team consensus. Each activity includes a step-by-step guide, helpful hints, and examples to assist in the process.
Peter A. Gloor
Introduces the concept of Collaborative Innovation Networks (COINs), one of the most productive engines of innovation. Using examples, this book shows how to leverage COINs to develop successful products in R&D, grow better customer relationships establish better project management, and build higher-performing teams.
Howard M. Guttman
Understand and decode the inner workings of great business teams with the more than 30 in-depth examples in Great Business Teams: Cracking the Code for Standout Performance. Author Howard Guttman examines and dissects teams at top-management, business-unit, and functional levels and isolates five key factors that drive team performance to offer you insight into the ways these teams achieve success. Using this book, go directly to the marketplace to scrutinize teams in a variety of industries, evaluating the challenges they face and the methods they choose to manage these challenges.
Bob Hancox, Russell Hunter & Kristann Boudreau
"Could the secret to heightened engagement and increasing bottom line results begin with the quality of your conversations as a leader? This practical book is for busy managers who are looking for more effective ways to get work done through their team members. It's for managers who want to improve their direct reports' performance and ability to generate business results. It's for managers who want to help their people become engaged, focused and productive. It's for managers who realize that they spend most of their day communicating and want to create conversations that have a bigger impact."--Publisher description.
John Adair
Most tasks in modern businesses are carried out by teams, so the ability to build and lead them is a vital management attribute. This book is enriched by a blend of examples, anecdotes, case studies and checklists, all designed to better team performance.