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Great Business Teams

Great Business Teams Cracking the Code for Standout Performance

Author: Howard M. Guttman
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9780470122433
Published In: May 2008
Format: Hardback , 256 pages
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Understand and decode the inner workings of great business teams with the more than 30 in-depth examples in Great Business Teams: Cracking the Code for Standout Performance. Author Howard Guttman examines and dissects teams at top-management, business-unit, and functional levels and isolates five key factors that drive team performance to offer you insight into the ways these teams achieve success. Using this book, go directly to the marketplace to scrutinize teams in a variety of industries, evaluating the challenges they face and the methods they choose to manage these challenges.

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

Chapter 1 Cracking the High-Performance Code.

Chapter 2 The New High-Performance Leader.

Chapter 3 The New High-Performance Player.

Chapter 4 Aligning for High Performance.

Chapter 5 Accelerating to High Performance.

Chapter 6 How Great Teams Make Decisions.

Chapter 7 How Great Teams Manage Meetings.

Chapter 8 How Great Teams Communicate.

Chapter 9 From Great Teams to a Great Organization.

Chapter 10 Great Leaders and Teams: Challenges, Responses, and Remaining Issues.

Appendix A Player-Centered Leadership.

Appendix B The Skills of a Great Team Member.

Index.

Howard M. Guttman is Principal of Guttman Development Strategies, Inc. (GDS), a Mount Arlington, New Jersey–based management consulting firm specializing in building high-performance teams, executive coaching, strategic and operational alignment, and project implementation. His articles and commentary have appeared in many publications, including Chief Executive, Financial Times, Harvard Management Update, USA Today, U.S. News & World Report, and the Washington Post. He is also the author of When Goliaths Clash: Managing Executive Conflict to Build a More Dynamic Organization. GDS has been selected as one of the twenty best U.S. consulting firms in leadership development by Leadership Excellence magazine.
For further information, visit www.guttmandev.com.