Harvard Business Review on Building Better Teams
If you need the best practices and ideas for superior team building-but don't have time to find them-this Book is for you. Here are 10 inspiring and useful perspectives, all in one place.
This collection of HBR articles will help you :
- Boost team performance through mutual accountability
- Motivate large, diverse groups to tackle complex projects
- Increase groups' emotional intelligence
- Reverse the fortunes of a struggling team
- Prevent decision deadlock
- Extract results from a bunch of touchy superstars
- Fight constructively with top-management colleagues
- Ensure productivity in far-flung teams
1. Why Teams Don't Work/Diane Coutu
2. The Discipline of Teams/Jon R. Katzenbach and Douglas K. Smith
3. Eight Ways to Build Collaborative Teams/Lynda Gratton and Tamara J. Erickson
4. Building the Emotional Intelligence of Groups/Vanessa Urch Druskat and Steven B. Wolff
5. Managing Multicultural Teams/Jeanne Brett, Kristin Behfar, and Mary C. Kern
6. The Tough Work of Turning Around a Team/Bill Parcells
7. When Teams Can't Decide/Bob Frisch
8. Virtuoso Teams/Bill Fischer and Andy Boynton
9. How Management Teams Can Have A Good Fight/Kathleen M. Eisenhardt, Jean L. Kahwajy, and L.J. Bourgeois III
10. Can Absence Make a Team Grow Stronger?/Ann Majchrzak, Arvind Malhotra, Jeffrey Stamps, and Jessica Lipnack