Great Business Teams: Cracking the Code for Standout Performance

by Howard M. Guttman

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780470122433
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	06/16/2008
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	433,480
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

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.

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Table of Contents

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xi

Chapter 1 Cracking the High-Performance Code 1

Chapter 2 The New High-Performance Leader 19

Chapter 3 The New High-Performance Player 47

Chapter 4 Aligning for High Performance 79

Chapter 5 Accelerating to High Performance 111

Chapter 6 How Great Teams Make Decisions 125

Chapter 7 How Great Teams Manage Meetings 141

Chapter 8 How Great Teams Communicate 155

Chapter 9 From Great Teams to a Great Organization 169

Chapter 10 Great Leaders and Teams: Challenges, Responses, and Remaining Issues 185

Appendix A Player-Centered Leadership 203

Appendix B The Skills of a Great Team Member 209

Index 231