Iceberg Down: Building High-Performance Teams: Imagine Solving the Most Complex Problems

by Ed Minnock

Overview

This book presents a roadmap for finding innovative solutions to the complex problems found in business, education, government, non-profits, and communities. Whether you are starting out in a career, an experienced professional, or a highly-skilled specialist, the book will provide steps to transform yourself from a high-performing individual to an effective builder and leader of collaborative, high-performance teams. To drive home the relevancy and power of collaborative, high-performing teams, author Ed Minnock has created a fictional story based upon a real problem: the critical shortage of fresh water in the world today. In the story, icebergs are seen as the last chance to avoid a worldwide catastrophe. But harvesting water from icebergs is complicated, and time is running out. The main characters trying to solve the water crisis are penguins, and they don't get along very well, even though they try to do what's right. Can adversaries become a collaborating, high-performance team in time to save the human race? The clock is ticking

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781494433505
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	01/02/2014
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.57(d)

About the Author

Ed Minnock is founder and CEO of Ed Minnock and Associates, a consulting firm that specializes in helping teams reach their high-performance potential.

Ed has broad experience as an executive, a Lean Product Development consultant, and a practitioner of the Toyota Way. He has led business teams, strategy development teams, product development teams, and task teams.

Before founding Ed Minnock and Associates, Ed worked at Targeted Convergence Corporation, where he trained three thousand people in Lean Product Development and Lean Problem-Solving.

Ed's experience includes Hewlett Packard, where he was a vice president and general manager, responsible for two businesses, with revenue of nearly a billion dollars. Other positions at Hewlett Packard included director of research and development, and director of manufacturing.

Before Hewlett Packard, he worked for start-up technology companies.

Ed earned a BS degree in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from Cornell University and an MBA from Colorado State University.

Ed lives with his wife and daughter in Colorado.