Teamwork And The Bottom Line

This volume is based on extensive research findings and the author's observation that successful managers are people who understand the dynamics of group interaction and can use that understanding effectively to motivate members of their group to achieve important goals. Blending theory, research, and practice, the book emphasizes a "management through teamwork" strategy in task groups that increases both the quality and quantity of goods and services, improves decision making, and is beneficial to their members. While closely linked to a large body of applied research evidence, Teamwork and the Bottom Line makes liberal use of examples drawn from business oriented publications and from the author's experiences in manufacturing, service, sales, information systems, health care, and other work environments. It includes numerous ideas that can help managers become more secure in their current roles by developing a more complete knowledge base about potential "change levers."

This volume is based on extensive research findings and the author's observation that successful managers are people who understand the dynamics of group interaction and can use that understanding effectively to motivate members of their group to achieve important goals. Blending theory, research, and practice, the book emphasizes a "management through teamwork" strategy in task groups that increases both the quality and quantity of goods and services, improves decision making, and is beneficial to their members. While closely linked to a large body of applied research evidence, Teamwork and the Bottom Line makes liberal use of examples drawn from business oriented publications and from the author's experiences in manufacturing, service, sales, information systems, health care, and other work environments. It includes numerous ideas that can help managers become more secure in their current roles by developing a more complete knowledge base about potential "change levers."

Leading Initiatives tackles head-on the main problems affecting today's managers and other leaders. It aims to demystify the processes of building teams and building leaders. Leading Initiatives provides timeless, fad-free advice to managers of teams in business, government, sport and the military. Emphasis is placed on the writings of great leaders past and present. Jeremy Tozer draws on his extensive military experience as he explores great leaders' personal views of leadership and the management process.

The authors of this text review the most current thinking on HR initiatives associated with current organisational performance and investigate how the field will need to mobilise in new ways to meet the demands of the future.

CEO Barry Halton is beginning to think he's not cut out to carry a company from ordinary to extraordinary. After a great start-up, his second company has hit an all-too-familiar wall.Frustrated and discouraged, he runs into an old friend who introduces him to The Collaborative Way(R), a way of working together that not only builds a great place to work but also generates the competitive advantage Barry is looking for.Three years after that chance encounter, the result is a dramatic change in Barry's leadership and in the leadership throughout his company-a tremendous growth in collaboration that's moving the company forward in a powerful and inspiring way.

In his classic book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni laid out a groundbreaking approach for tackling the perilous group behaviors that destroy teamwork. Here he turns his focus to the individual, revealing the three indispensable virtues of an ideal team player. In The Ideal Team Player, Lencioni tells the story of Jeff Shanley, a leader desperate to save his uncle’s company by restoring its cultural commitment to teamwork. Jeff must crack the code on the virtues that real team players possess, and then build a culture of hiring and development around those virtues. Beyond the fable, Lencioni presents a practical framework and actionable tools for identifying, hiring, and developing ideal team players. Whether you’re a leader trying to create a culture around teamwork, a staffing professional looking to hire real team players, or a team player wanting to improve yourself, this book will prove to be as useful as it is compelling.

For many managers, teamwork is a concept that has little to do with making money and staying in business. Breakthrough Teamwork changes that perception by offering insights from companies (such as Motorola, Monsato, Westinghouse, and Amoco) that have experienced significant breakthroughs in productivity and profitability as a result of Romig's unique process called Structured Teamwork. Breakthrough Teamwork provides you with the clear definition or methodology for how to succeed with teamwork, while also providing concrete examples of how teams using the Structured Teamwork approach have contributed to their organizations' bottom-line results. Focusing on successful implementation of teams, Breakthrough Teamwork reveals a summary of 1,200 studies of "what works" in business and industry, a new definition of teamwork that endures as a team develops and improves its structures, a structured methodology for implementing successful teams, and examples of what the most effective teams in corporate America have accomplished for their organizations using this system.