Team Genius: The New Science of High-Performing Organizations - Hardcover

Karlgaard, Rich; Malone, Michael S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 006230254X ISBN 13: 9780062302540

Publisher: HarperBus, 2015

Synopsis

[ Team Genius: The New Science of High-Performing Organizations By ( Author ) Jul-2015 Hardcover

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Review:

“With 300,000 team members around the world, thousands of trucks, and hundreds of aircraft, FedEx delivers more than 2 billion packages a year. We can only do this with exceptional teams of people. Team Genius advances our thinking on what makes highly effective and maneuverable teams.” (FREDERICK W. SMITH, founder, and chief executive officer, FedEx Corporation)

“Companies thrive when employees are empowered to do their best work every day. Inclusive teams that value diverse perspectives and have passion for new ideas encourage continuous learning. Team Genius offers a practical approach to fostering top-performing teams.” (SATYA NADELLA, chief executive officer, Microsoft)

“Team Genius explores a question key for any organization: What causes teams to succeed or fail? Karlgaard and Malone look at how leaders can create conditions for success by embracing differences within teams, bringing out the best in people, and understanding that we are hardwired to collaborate.” (ARIANNA HUFFINGTON, founder of Huffington Post Media and author of Thrive)

“Today’s exponential entrepreneur-anyone interested in going big, creating wealth, and impacting the world-must leverage the world’s talent. Team Genius shows how.” (PETER H. DIAMANDIS, MD, chairman and chief executive officer, X PRIZE; executive chairman, Singularity University; New York Times bestselling author of Abundance and Bold)

“Persuasive and crucial...Team Genius, a splendid example of team achievement, lays out what you need to know about a subject that’s becoming more important than ever to an organization’s success.” (Steve Forbes, Forbes)

“What topic is this dream team of writers bringing us? The very nature and architecture of dream teams-how to think about them, staff and support them, and when to dismantle them and build anew.” (800-CEO-Read)

“This book offers valuable insights for twenty-first-century management.” (Booklist)

“In Team Genius, [Karlgaard and Malone] explore the numbers game and explain the surprising correlations between success and team size.” (Success magazine)

“a useful overview of the science of teams....” (Financial Times)

About the Author:

Rich Karlgaard is the publisher of Forbes magazine, where he writes a featured column, Innovation Rules, covering business and leadership issues. An accomplished entrepreneur as well as a journalist and speaker, he is a cofounder of Upside magazine, Garage Technology Partners, and Silicon Valley's premier public business forum, the 7,500-member Churchill Club. He is also the author of Life 2.0 and The Soft Edge: Where Great Companies Find Lasting Success. He lives with his family in Silicon Valley.

Michael S. Malone is one of the world's best-known technology writers. A veteran newspaper reporter and columnist, magazine editor, and entrepreneur, he is the author or coauthor of nearly twenty award-winning books, notably the bestselling The Virtual Corporation, Bill & Dave, and The Intel Trinity.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperBus
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 006230254X
• ISBN 13: 9780062302540
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304