Douglas K. Smith Livres

Teams are fast becoming a flexible and efficient way to enhance organizational performance. Yet today's business leaders consistently overlook opportunities to exploit their potential, confusing teams with teamwork or sharing. In this book, two senior McKinsey successful team leaders fit no ideal profile; commitment to performance goals is more important than commitment to team-building goals; top management teams are often smaller and more difficult to sustain; and team endings can be as important to manage as team beginnings. The wisdom of teams lies in recognizing their unique potential to deliver results and in understanding their many benefits.

Managers at all levels strive to develop effective teams while avoiding the pitfalls so common in team management. This invaluable collection of articles explores teamwork from a variety of angles, including emotional intelligence, creativity, and decision making. Every reader will gain insight on how to create and manage teams that work efficiently, effectively, and collaboratively.

Assemble and steer teams that get results. These ten essential Harvard Business Review articles will help you ramp up your team's performance, rally the troops and keep them accountable, fight constructively, and set goals everyone can agree on.

Zwei erfahrene Unternehmensberater von McKinsey interviewten hunderte Menschen um herauszufinden, auf welchen Leistungsebenen Teams arbeiten, wo und unter welchen Bedingungen Teams am erfolgreichsten sind, und wie ihre Effektivität verbessert werden kann.