The Discipline of Teams: A Mindbook-Workbook for Delivering Small Group Performance - Hardcover

An essential guide for any small group that must deliver team performance. With the demand for project-oriented work and faster, more nimble responses, successful small-group performance is more crucial than ever. Katzenbach and Smith, authors of the international bestseller The Wisdom of Teams, have again joined forces, revealing how to implement the disciplines, frameworks, tools, and techniques required for team- and small-group performance. Combining their insights and practical strategies, they offer concepts and pragmatic, doable exercises for team leaders and team members to deliver results. Hot topics covered include: why small-group performance demands expertise at two disciplines, team level and leader level, instead of one; virtual teams; and global teams. This book combines practical exercises with cutting-edge insights, and both authors are authorities on the subject. Attend a featured author workshop at the 13th International Conference on Work Teams: Collaborating for Competitive Advantage, September 23-25, 2002, in Dallas, TX. For information, contact the Center for the Study of Work Teams at 940 565 3096 or visit them online at www.workteams.unt.edu.

Concepts, Principles, and Practical Techniques for ImprovingSmall-Group Performance

The authors of the phenomenal bestseller, The Wisdom of Teams, areback. This time Jon Katzenbach and Doug Smith focus on the issuesof small group discipline and performance and the challengespresented by revolutionary technologies that enable the creation ofvirtual teams and global teams.

The Discipline of Teams helps small groups implement thedisciplines, frameworks, tools, and techniques that enableperformance. With detailed guidance and dozens of indispensableexercises, they present a regimen proven to improve performance andhelp groups adhere to the Six Basic Principles of TeamDiscipline:

? Keep team membership small

? Ensure that members have complementary skills

? Develop a common purpose

? Set common goals

? Establish a commonly agreed upon working approach

? Integrate mutual and individual accountability

The Discipline of Teams is an indispensable resource for any smallgroup in any organization that wants to raise the bar by settingand achieving more ambitious performance goals again andagain.

Katzenbach and Smith's work on teams over the past decade has beencalled "essential", "path breaking", and "the best ever" byBusiness Week, Harvard Business Review, the Wall Street Journal,the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times,Leader to Leader, Fast Company, the Financial Times, and otherpublications around the world. Tens of thousands of teams, from theexecutive suite to the front lines, have applied the Katzenbach andSmith disciplines to increase the performance of theirorganizations and themselves.