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

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JON R. KATZENBACH is an internationally recognized author and consultant who is invited to speak all over the world. After spending many years as a senior partner at McKinsey, he recently opened his own firm, Katzenbach Partners. Katzenbach is coauthor, with Douglas Smith, of The Wisdom of Teams.

DOUGLAS K. SMITH is an internationally recognized authority on organizational performance, innovation, and change. He is the author of the first Wiley mindbook-workbook, Make Success Measurable, and Taking Charge of Change, as well as the coauthor of The Wisdom of Teams.

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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.

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They took the world by storm with The Wisdom of Teams, theoverwhelmingly successful bestseller that was translated intofifteen languages and sold more than 400,000 copies worldwide. Now,the world's two leading authorities on teams and team dynamics joinforces once again to help organizations large and small implementthe disciplines, frameworks, tools, and techniques that raisesmall-group performance to a whole new level.

In The Discipline of Teams, Jon Katzenbach and Douglas Smithpresent significant insights on team performance that they havegained in the near-decade since the publication of Wisdom. Theyexplore the two critical disciplines that drive performance insmall groups, providing concrete steps that groups can take toensure the use of the right discipline at the right time. They alsoaddress new developments such as virtual teaming and global teamingthat both amplify the importance of team performance and presentnew challenges to achieving it.

Providing detailed guidance and dozens of exercises that helpreinforce team discipline, this mindbook-workbook helps smallgroups distinguish between outcome- and activity-based goals. Italso provides the tools teams need to create and manage themselvesaccording to a performance-based agenda. The authors detail the sixbasic principles of team discipline and offer guidance on applyingthese principles to team performance challenges.

An important additional purpose of this book is to help teamsexploit the opportunities presented by modern communicationtechnology to accomplish group work and performance-whileillustrating how team discipline plays just as critical a role inthe achievements of global and virtual teams.

Performance is key to team success-and The Discipline of Teamsprovides the conceptual and practical guidance that will help anyteam in any organization set and achieve performance goals beyondtheir wildest dreams.