Teams That Click: A Timesaving Guide for Increasing Your Effectiveness Paperback – 11 June 2004
by Harvard Business School Press
Condition: Minor wear on cover from storage, new never used
With advice on everything from finding and selecting the right mix of people to avoiding people management pitfalls to creating virtual teams, this is every manager's hands-on guide to boosting productivity through superior team performance. It includes fast and actionable tools and strategies for improving critical management skills - culled from Harvard Business School Publishing's respected newsletters - "Harvard Management Update" and "Harvard Management Communication Letter."
Review
"1. "Boosting Your Team's Productivity: Managing a Team Vs. Managing the Individuals on a Team," by Loren Gary; 2. "The Three Essentials of an Effective Team," by Jim Billington; 3. "Why Some Teams Succeed (And So Many Don't): The Key Is How They Are Managed"; 4. "3-D Chess: Boosting Team Productivity Through Emotional Intelligence," by Steve Barth; 5. "Six Steps Toward Making a Team Innovative," by Jim Biolos; 6. "Overcoming Team Conflicts: Bury Your Opinion, Shortchange Your Team," by Loren Gary; 7. "Tension in Teams: When Is It Destructive, When Is It Creative?" by Jim Kling; 8. "Handling Conflict in Teams: A Roundup of Recent Research"; 9. "Why the Team Members of Your Team Won't Speak Up, and What You Can Do About It," by Mattison Crowe; 10. "Teams: Solving the Sophomore Slump," by Rebecca M. Saunders; 11. "Managing Communication Within Diverse and Virtual Teams: Motivating Across Generations," by David Stauffer; 12. "Virtual Teams: Paleolithic Insights About the Art of Cyber-Managing"; 13. "The Art of Managing Virtual Teams: Eight Key Lessons," by Charles Wardell; 14. "Compensating and Rewarding Your Team," by Loren Gary; 15. "How to Reward Project Teams"
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Product details
- Publisher : Harvard Business Review Press (11 June 2004)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 160 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1591393507
- ISBN-13 : 9781591393504
- Dimensions : 12.7 x 1.91 x 20.96 cm