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Smith is widely acknowledged to be among the worlds leading management innovators and thinkers. Katzenbach and smiths comprehensive classic is the essential guide to unlocking the potential of teams in your organization. The definitive classic on highperformance teams the wisdom of teams is the definitive work on. Having sold nearly a half million copies and been translated into more than fifteen languages, the authors clarion call that teams should be the basic unit of organization for most businesses has permanently. In this book, first published by harvard business school press in 1993 and rereleased in 2015 as a perennial classic edition, katzenbach center founder and pwc managing director jon katzenbach and his coauthor douglas k. Senator bill bradley jon katzenbach and doug smith have lived with highperformance teams for years.
Creating the highperformance organization by jon r. The authors blended together their highly detailed framework for team development with examples of how several corporations successfully or unsuccessfully implemented these team principles. A mindbookworkbook for delivering small group performance by jon r. Katzenbach is a founder of katzenbach partners, consultants in the areas of team, leadership, and. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the wisdom of teams. No team arises without a performance challenge that is meaningful to those involved. Katzenbach has 22 books on goodreads with 4830 ratings. The wisdom of teams presents katzenbach and smiths contention that real teams are the best approach to building a highperformance organization. Wisdom lies in recognizing a teams unique potential to deliver results and in understanding its many benefits development of individual members, team accomplishments, and stronger companywide performance. In the discipline of teams, jon katzenbach and douglas smith explore the often counterintuitive features that make up highperforming teams. Be the first to ask a question about the wisdom of teams. Now they share their meticulous observations with all of us in an important and timely book, brimming with useful detail.
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