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by: Jon R. Katzenbach, Douglas K. Smith See Larger Image List Price: $17.95 Our Price: $12.21 You Save: $5.74 (32%) Prices subject to change. Used Price: $4.45 Third Party New Price: $6.70 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours This item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping. Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 658.3128 EAN: 9780060522001 ISBN: 0060522003 Label: Collins Business Manufacturer: Collins Business Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 352 Publication Date: March 01, 2003 Publisher: Collins Business Release Date: February 18, 2003 Sales Rank: 11410 Studio: Collins Business Related Items: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable The Discipline of Teams: A Mindbook-Workbook for Delivering Small Group Performance Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Field Guide for Leaders, Managers, and Facilitators Leading Change see more Editorial Review: Product Description: Teams -- the key to top performance Motorola relied heavily on teams to surpass its competition in building the lightest, smallest, and highest-quality cell phones. At 3M, teams are critical to meeting the company's goal of producing half of each year's revenues from the previous five years' innovations. Kodak's Zebra Team proved the worth of black-and-white film manufacturing in a world where color is king. But many companies overtook the potential of teams in turning around tagging profits, entering new markets, and making exciting innovations happen -- because they don't know how to utilize teams successfully. Authors Jon R. Katzenbach and Douglas K. Smith talked with hundreds of people in more than thirty companies to find out where and how teams work best and how to enhance their effectiveness. They reveal: The most important element in team success Who excels at team leadership ... and why they are rarely the most senior people Why companywide change depends on teams ... and more Comprehensive and proven effective, The Wisdom of Teams is the classic primer on making teams a powerful too[ for success in today's global marketplace. Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - The Wisdom of Teams As a professional consultant, time is well spent with the author is states clearly what he means, and justifies his stand. Good relevant information, and easy reading. Dr. Evelyn J. Johnson Rating: - The Wisdon Of Teams This is a great book for anyone in business - mainly as it is based on fact and research - not an opinion. I have sent copies to most of my friends in business as it is a worthwhile tool and makes human behaviour more obvious - a great read. Rating: - Good overview on the what and why of teams Jon Katzenbach and Dough Smith is probably the most classical work on teams at the moment. It's a pretty good description on what teams are and what you can do to create working teams. It also covers quite well the why of teams: why would you want to have teams in your organization. The book is divided into three parts: - Understanding teams - Becoming a team - Exploiting the potential The first part is the most important part of the book. In the ... Read More Rating: - The Wisdom of Teams Displays Much Wisdom This book is an excellent read for anyone with responsibilities for leading groups of people to attain desired and sometimes even extraordinary outcomes within their organization. The insights revealed here are a critically important option for organizations that wish or need to attain productivity beyond what can be realized from the sum of individual contributions. Understanding the discipline of real teams can turn someone with average leadership abilities and potential into an extraordinary leader. Rating: - How to form high-performance teams What's nice about Jon R. Katzenbach and Douglas K. Smith's book is their willingness to name the truth. They know that everyone pays lip service to teams, but few people act like they truly value teams - and fewer still actually know how teams really work. The authors point out where the hype lies and what it is hiding. Then they go a step farther. They provide a manual for creating what executives say they want: high-performance teams. They illustrate their suggestions, insights and guidelines with a lot ... Read More see more Browse for similar items by category: Book Clubs - Custom Stores - Specialty Stores - Books - Business & Professional Business & Finance - New & Used Textbooks - Custom Stores - Specialty Stores - Books - Human Resources Business & Finance - New & Used Textbooks - Custom Stores - Specialty Stores - Books - Management Business & Finance - New & Used Textbooks - Custom Stores - Specialty Stores - Books - General AAS New & Used Textbooks - Custom Stores - Specialty Stores - Books - General AAS