Teamwork

Author: (USA) Katzenbach
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: Today's businesses place more emphasis on teamwork than ever before, striving to build high-performing work teams. However, teamwork and true team performance are not the same thing. In fact, many teams demonstrate unpredictability and difficulty in control during actual operations, often leaving team managers facing unexpected disappointment and discouragement. As an expert in team issues and a best-selling author, Joe Katzenbach has compiled articles from Harvard Business Review into the book Teamwork, exploring the challenges and potential rewards that every team collaboration attempt will face. Today's businesses place more emphasis on teamwork than ever before, striving to build high-performing work teams. However, teamwork and true team performance are not the same thing. This book addresses the fundamental challenges leaders face regarding teamwork—how to integrate teamwork with organizational structure, management models, and management processes. The book is woven with the following core questions for creating high-performing teams:
1. Basic principles for planning and implementing teamwork processes
2. Addressing challenges, mitigating the complexities, conflicts, and rigor of work
3. Balancing, coordinating, and strengthening the characteristics and approaches of various small groups
4. Integrating different categories and domains, combining teams with individual leadership-oriented performance units
The articles in this book are selected from Harvard Business Review and written by scholars who are experts in team research. They are well-known in the industry for their rigorous and insightful writing. They present insights on work teams in accessible language, making the book both academically grounded and easy to read. Today's businesses place more emphasis on teamwork than ever before, striving to build high-performing work teams. However, teamwork and true team performance are not the same thing. In fact, many teams demonstrate unpredictability and difficulty in control during actual operations, often leaving team managers facing unexpected disappointment and discouragement. As an expert in team issues and a best-selling author, Joe Katzenbach has compiled articles from Harvard Business Review into the book Teamwork, exploring the challenges and potential rewards that every team collaboration attempt will face. Today's businesses place more emphasis on teamwork than ever before, striving to build high-performing work teams. However, teamwork and true team performance are not the same thing. This book addresses the fundamental challenges leaders face regarding teamwork—how to integrate teamwork with organizational structure, management models, and management processes. The book is woven with the following core questions for creating high-performing teams:
1. Basic principles for planning and implementing teamwork processes
2. Addressing challenges, mitigating the complexities, conflicts, and rigor of work
3. Balancing, coordinating, and strengthening the characteristics and approaches of various small groups
4. Integrating different categories and domains, combining teams with individual leadership-oriented performance units
The articles in this book are selected from Harvard Business Review and written by scholars who are experts in team research. They are well-known in the industry for their rigorous and insightful writing. They present insights on work teams in accessible language, making the book both academically grounded and easy to read.