The Discipline of Teams: A Mindbook-Workbook for Delivering Small Group Performance - Hardcover

Katzenbach, Jon R.; Smith, Douglas K.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 047138254X ISBN 13: 9780471382546

Publisher: Wiley, 2001

Synopsis

An essential guide for any small group that must deliver team performance.

With the demand for project-oriented work and faster, more nimble responses, successful small-group performance is more crucial than ever. Katzenbach and Smith, authors of the international bestseller The Wisdom of Teams, have again joined forces, revealing how to implement the disciplines, frameworks, tools, and techniques required for team- and small-group performance. Combining their insights and practical strategies, they offer concepts and pragmatic, doable exercises for team leaders and team members to deliver results. Hot topics covered include: why small-group performance demands expertise at two disciplines, team level and leader level, instead of one; virtual teams; and global teams. This book combines practical exercises with cutting-edge insights, and both authors are authorities on the subject.

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About this title

About the Author

JON R. KATZENBACH is an internationally recognized author and consultant who is invited to speak all over the world. After spending many years as a senior partner at McKinsey, he recently opened his own firm, Katzenbach Partners. Katzenbach is coauthor, with Douglas Smith, of The Wisdom of Teams.

DOUGLAS K. SMITH is an internationally recognized authority on organizational performance, innovation, and change. He is the author of the first Wiley mindbook-workbook, Make Success Measurable, and Taking Charge of Change, as well as the coauthor of The Wisdom of Teams.

From the Back Cover

They took the world by storm with The Wisdom of Teams, the overwhelmingly successful bestseller that was translated into fifteen languages and sold more than 400,000 copies worldwide. Now, the world’s two leading authorities on teams and team dynamics join forces once again to help organizations large and small implement the disciplines, frameworks, tools, and techniques that raise small-group performance to a whole new level.

In The Discipline of Teams, Jon Katzenbach and Douglas Smith present significant insights on team performance that they have gained in the near-decade since the publication of Wisdom. They explore the two critical disciplines that drive performance in small groups, providing concrete steps that groups can take to ensure the use of the right discipline at the right time. They also address new developments such as virtual teaming and global teaming that both amplify the importance of team performance and present new challenges to achieving it.

Providing detailed guidance and dozens of exercises that help reinforce team discipline, this mindbook-workbook helps small groups distinguish between outcome- and activity-based goals. It also provides the tools teams need to create and manage themselves according to a performance-based agenda. The authors detail the six basic principles of team discipline and offer guidance on applying these principles to team performance challenges.

An important additional purpose of this book is to help teams exploit the opportunities presented by modern communication technology to accomplish group work and performance―while illustrating how team discipline plays just as critical a role in the achievements of global and virtual teams.

Performance is key to team success―and The Discipline of Teams provides the conceptual and practical guidance that will help any team in any organization set and achieve performance goals beyond their wildest dreams.

From the Inside Flap

They took the world by storm with The Wisdom of Teams, the overwhelmingly successful bestseller that was translated into fifteen languages and sold more than 400,000 copies worldwide. Now, the world's two leading authorities on teams and team dynamics join forces once again to help organizations large and small implement the disciplines, frameworks, tools, and techniques that raise small-group performance to a whole new level.

In The Discipline of Teams, Jon Katzenbach and Douglas Smith present significant insights on team performance that they have gained in the near-decade since the publication of Wisdom. They explore the two critical disciplines that drive performance in small groups, providing concrete steps that groups can take to ensure the use of the right discipline at the right time. They also address new developments such as virtual teaming and global teaming that both amplify the importance of team performance and present new challenges to achieving it.

Providing detailed guidance and dozens of exercises that help reinforce team discipline, this mindbook-workbook helps small groups distinguish between outcome- and activity-based goals. It also provides the tools teams need to create and manage themselves according to a performance-based agenda. The authors detail the six basic principles of team discipline and offer guidance on applying these principles to team performance challenges.

An important additional purpose of this book is to help teams exploit the opportunities presented by modern communication technology to accomplish group work and performance-while illustrating how team discipline plays just as critical a role in the achievements of global and virtual teams.

Performance is key to team success-and The Discipline of Teams provides the conceptual and practical guidance that will help any team in any organization set and achieve performance goals beyond their wildest dreams.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 047138254X
• ISBN 13: 9780471382546
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256