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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Teams (with featured article

HBR's 10 Must Reads on Teams (with featured article "The Discipline of Teams," by Jon R. Katzenbach and Douglas K. Smith)

HBR's 10 Must Reads on Teams (with featured article
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Teams (with featured article

HBR's 10 Must Reads on Teams (with featured article "The Discipline of Teams," by Jon R. Katzenbach and Douglas K. Smith)

Overview

Most teams underperform. Yours can beat the odds.

If you read nothing else on building better teams, read these 10 articles. We’ve combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you assemble and steer teams that get results.

Leading experts such as Jon Katzenbach, Teresa Amabile, and Tamara Erickson provide the insights and advice you need to:

  • Boost team performance through mutual accountability
  • Motivate large, diverse groups to tackle complex projects
  • Increase your teams’ emotional intelligence
  • Prevent decision deadlock
  • Extract results from a bunch of touchy superstars
  • Fight constructively with top-management colleagues

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781422191460
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
Publication date: 03/05/2013
Series: HBR's 10 Must Reads Series
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 208
Sales rank: 503,965
File size: 9 MB

About the Author

Harvard Business Review is the leading destination for smart management thinking. Through its flagship magazine, 11 international licensed editions, books from Harvard Business Review Press, and digital content and tools published on HBR.org, Harvard Business Review provides professionals around the world with rigorous insights and best practices to lead themselves and their organizations more effectively and to make a positive impact.

Table of Contents

The New Science of Building Great Teams Alex "Sandy" Pentland 1

Why Teams Don't Work: An Interview with J. Richard Hackman Diane Coutu 21

The Discipline of Teams Jon R. Katzenbach Douglas K. Smith 35

Eight Ways to Build Collaborative Teams Lynda Gratton Tamara J. Erickson 55

The Power of Small Wins Teresa M. Amabile Steven J. Kramer 75

Building the Emotional Intelligence of Groups Vanessa Urch Druskat Steven B. Wolff 95

Managing Multicultural Teams Jeanne Brett Kristin Behfar Mary C. Kern 117

When Teams Can't Decide Bob Frisch 135

Virtuoso Teams Bill Fischer Andy Boynton 149

How Management Teams Can Have a Good Fight Kathleen M. Eisenhardt Jean L. Kahwajy L.J. Bourgeois III 165

About the Contributors 183

Index 185

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