Always Change A Winning Team

Author : Peter Robertson
Publisher : Cyan Books
ISBN 13 : 9780954282998
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Always Change a Winning Team written by Peter Robertson and published by Cyan Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beware success: it breeds failure. That's the controversial message of this fascinating and timely book. Much management literature is preoccupied with finding excellent companies and dissecting what makes them successful. Yet all too often, these shining examples slump into decline a few years later. Paradoxically, it is when a business is at the peak of its success that it is most vulnerable to failure. So what exactly is going wrong? Drawing on his expertise as an organizational consultant, Peter Robertson shows that managers in successful companies can easily become complacent, believing that their prosperity will continue unchallenged and unchecked. Worse still, success feeds vanity, making businesses inflexible and resistant to change. Competitors soon catch up and threaten their position. To avoid the success trap, a company must be constantly ready to reinvent itself, even when it seems to be thriving. But regeneration calls for conscious choices and efforts on the part of all the people within the organization. The author explores the kind of leadership that enables and inspires people to change. He shows that values, integrity, and trust create the stability and sense of security that today's companies need not just to win, but to keep on winning. Book jacket.

Author : John P. Kotter
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
ISBN 13 : 1422186431
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leading Change written by John P. Kotter and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the ill-fated dot-com bubble to unprecedented merger and acquisition activity to scandal, greed, and, ultimately, recession -- we've learned that widespread and difficult change is no longer the exception. By outlining the process organizations have used to achieve transformational goals and by identifying where and how even top performers derail during the change process, Kotter provides a practical resource for leaders and managers charged with making change initiatives work.

Author : Scott Jeffrey Miller
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982112077
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everyone Deserves a Great Manager written by Scott Jeffrey Miller and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ***A WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER*** From the organizational experts at FranklinCovey, an essential guide to becoming the great manager every team deserves. A practical must-read, FranklinCovey’s Everyone Deserves a Great Manager is the essential guide for the millions of people all over the world making the challenging and rewarding leap to manager. Based on nearly a decade of research on what makes managers successful—and includes new ways of thinking, tips and techniques—this volume has been field-tested with hundreds of thousands of managers all over the world. Organized under four main roles every manager is expected to fill, Everyone Deserves a Great Manager focuses on how to lead yourself, people, teams, and change. Readers can start anywhere and go everywhere with this guide—depending on their current problem or time constraint. They can pick up a helpful tip in ten minutes or glean an entire skillset with deeper reading. The goal is for the busy manager to know what to do and how to do it without interrupting their regular workflow. Each role highlights the current, authentic problems managers face and briefly explores the limiting mindsets or common mistakes that led to those problems. With skill-based chapters that cover managerial skills like one-on-ones, giving feedback, delegating, hiring, building team culture, and leading remote teams, the book also includes more than thirty unique tools, such as a prep worksheets and a list of behavioral questions for your next interview. An approachable, engaging style using real-world stories, Everyone Deserves a Great Manager provides the blueprint for becoming the great manager every team deserves.

Author : Jon Gordon
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119157870
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book You Win in the Locker Room First written by Jon Gordon and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NFL head coach Mike Smith lead one of the most remarkable turnarounds in NFL history. In the season prior to his arrival in 2008, the Atlanta Falcons had a 4–12 record and the franchise had never before achieved back-to-back winning seasons. Under Smith’s leadership, the Falcons earned an 11–5 record in his first season and would go on to become perennial playoff and Super Bowl contenders earning Smith AP Coach of year in 2008 and voted Coach of Year by his peers in 2008, 2010 and 2012. You Win in the Locker Room First draws on the extraordinary experiences of Coach Mike Smith and Jon Gordon—consultant to numerous college and professional teams—to explore the seven powerful principles that any business, school, organization, or sports team can adopt to revitalize their organization. Step by step, the authors outline a strategy for building a thriving organization and provide a practical framework that give leaders the tools they need to create a great culture, lead with the right mindset, create strong relationships, improve teamwork, execute at a higher level, and avoid the pitfalls that sabotage far too many leaders and organizations. In addition to sharing what went right with the Falcons, Smith also transparently shares what went wrong his last two seasons and provides invaluable lessons leaders can take away from his victories, success, failures and mistakes. Whether it’s an executive leadership team of a Fortune 500 company, a sports team, an emergency room team, military team, or a school team successful leaders coach their team and develop, mentor, encourage, and guide them. This not only improves the team, it improves the leaders and their relationships, connections, and organization. You Win in the Locker Room First offers a rare behind-the-scenes look at one of the most pressure packed leadership jobs on the planet and what leaders can learn from these experiences in order to build their own winning team.

Author : Jon R. Katzenbach
Publisher : Harvard Business Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1633691071
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wisdom of Teams written by Jon R. Katzenbach and published by Harvard Business Review Press. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive classic on high-performance teams The Wisdom of Teams is the definitive work on how to create high-performance teams in any organization. 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 shaped the way companies reach the highest levels of performance. Using engaging case studies and testimonials from both successful and failed teams—ranging from Fortune 500 companies to the U.S. Army to high school sports—the authors explain the dynamics of teams both in great detail and with a broad view. Their conclusions and prescriptions span the familiar to the counterintuitive: • Commitment to performance goals and common purpose is more important to team success than team building. • Opportunities for teams exist in all parts of the organization. • Real teams are the most successful spearheads of change at all levels. • Working in teams naturally integrates performance and learning. • Team “endings” can be as important to manage as team “beginnings.” Wisdom lies in recognizing a team’s unique potential to deliver results and in understanding its many benefits—development of individual members, team accomplishments, and stronger companywide performance. Katzenbach and Smith’s comprehensive classic is the essential guide to unlocking the potential of teams in your organization.

Author : Jim Anderson
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1491700343
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Principle-Based Leadership written by Jim Anderson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for 'Principle-Based Leadership' "All of the truly effective leaders I worked with during executive careers at both IBM and General Electric demonstrated principles and qualities that Jim presents here. Jim uses his experience of what works best for you to assess your own leadership style and skills and he outlines a process by which you can become an outstanding leader." - Gerry Sawyer V.P. North America Telecom Sales, General Electric (Ret.) "Jim Anderson has a gift for turning theoretical concepts into practical action steps. Anyone seeking to become a better leader, either in their personal or professional life, must read 'Principle-Based Leadership'." - John Uhlir VP National Commercial Services First American Title Insurance Company "I wholeheartedly recommend Jim's complete, practical guide to anyone seeking to strengthen their leadership skills." - Tom Ammentorp Director of Business Development Satellite Healthcare Inc. "Many of the struggles in our world are evidence of weak or absent leadership; particularly "principle based" leadership. Read Jim Anderson's book, study his lessons and do the exercises. Then go out and lead and change the world." - Paul S. Harkaway, MD Senior Vice President, CHE-Trinity Health "Jim Anderson has had a lifetime of leading and coaching others to excel and reach a higher plane in their chosen careers. I highly recommend 'Principle-Based Leadership' as an invaluable resource to anyone who wants to become a more effective leader." - Bradley H. Haertel Regional Director The REGUS Group "I have worked with Jim as an executive coach and management consultant. 'Principle-Based Leadership' lays out a complete self-help leadership program you will be able to incorporate in your day to day activities as you expand your leadership roles. I believe this will be a book you will keep on your desk in plain sight and refer to on a regular basis." - Lori Kostoff Executive Director Huron Valley Physicians Association

Author : J. Richard Hackman
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
ISBN 13 : 1578513332
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leading Teams written by J. Richard Hackman and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hackman (social and organizational psychology, Harvard U.) identifies the factors of being a team leader that will enable a team to work together efficiently to achieve organizational goals. He suggests that five conditions are necessary: having a real team, a compelling direction, an enabling team structure, a supportive organizational context, and expert team coaching. He integrates insights from interviews with team leaders with concepts from the social sciences. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Peter P. Robertson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Always Change a Winning Team written by Peter P. Robertson and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: De nederlandse versie van dit document kan gevonden worden op: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2193925 This paper (short book actually) is an attempt to integrate evolutionary theory (especially ethology), cybernetics and complexity-theory. This attempt is used for creating a model for the human mind. The first topic is a short overview of the growth-curve. Special focus is on the cybernetic characteristics of growth-curves (S-curves) in general. A growth-curve can be seen as a flow from feed forward-steering to feed back-control. This is a non-linear process, becoming more and more linear until the process is destroyed by its own overload of control. The second topic is a cybernetic understanding of the instinctive exploratory system and instinctive attachment system human beings share with all social animals. This is based upon the research of Nobel Laureate Konrad Lorenz. The human exploratory system can be defined as a feed forward-steering system. This allows for a direct conceptual and practical connection with growth-curves. The strength with which human adults express exploratory (feed forward) versus more stability (feedback) focused behavior can be used to define their contribution to the growth-curve. Connecting people's personalities this way (like a relay match) creates a cybernetic human resources concept for designing teams and strategic management of talent. The third topic is to focus on the importance of the intrinsic capacity of the healthy instinctive attachment system to develop both matter-attached (non-people attached) as well as people-attached human beings. Preliminary, but well documented (for example D. Thomson, 2006. Blue Print to a Billion, Hoboken, New Jersey, Wiley and Sons) observations show that most technological discoveries are made by matter-attached exploratory personalities. The fourth topic is to apply Ashby's Law of Requisite Variety as a measurement of how human beings connect to their ecosystems (maturity in dealing with external complexity). The fifth topic is applying the combination of stable personality characteristics (based upon the attachment and exploratory instinctive systems) and dynamic characteristics (based upon the Law of Requisite Variety) of dealing with external complexity in a single model. This single model is dynamically connected to the growth-curve based upon the cybernetic similarities of each phase of the growth-curve and the cybernetic characteristics of human beings. The model allows for a full dynamic Human Resources management that follows the phases of growth and allows talents to be re-utilized, aligned to the growth-curve. Practical corporate examples are used to illustrate the topics. The original dutch version was written in 2003. This version is the extended version of the dutch original. It was possible to include in this English version the illustration of the use of the theory and methods during the Hewlett Packard/Compaq merger. The English title "Always Change a Winning Team" refers back to a dialogue between Barbara Braun. Bob Sadler, Jim Arena and the author about the team assessment of the Merger Integration Office (reporting to Mr Webb McKinney and Ms Carly Fiorina) responsible for the HP/Compaq merger. On the 29th of November 2012 the publication rights are returned to the author by Marshall Cavendish (represented by Ms C. Newson for the English version) and Scriptum Publishers (represented by Mr H Ritman) for the Dutch version. This situation allows for a more easier and broader distribution of this version now via the SSRN. Since its publication, theory, research and practical developments continued world wide. A new re-edited version will appear during the next 24 months in a series of papers published as working papers at the SSRN. This version serves as a reference base and starting point for those who are already contributing to the next version and those who we assume will do so in the near future.

Author : Jon R. Katzenbach
Publisher : Harvard Business Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1633691039
Total Pages : 71 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Discipline of Teams written by Jon R. Katzenbach and published by Harvard Business Review Press. This book was released on 2009-01-08 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Discipline of Teams, Jon Katzenbach and Douglas Smith explore the often counter-intuitive features that make up high-performing teams—such as selecting team members for skill, not compatibility—and explain how managers can set specific goals to foster team development. The result is improved productivity and teams that can be counted on to deliver more than just the sum of their parts. Since 1922, Harvard Business Review has been a leading source of breakthrough ideas in management practice. The Harvard Business Review Classics series now offers you the opportunity to make these seminal pieces a part of your permanent management library. Each highly readable volume contains a groundbreaking idea that continues to shape best practices and inspire countless managers around the world.

Author : Simon Sinek
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1591846447
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Start with Why written by Simon Sinek and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-12-27 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspirational bestseller that ignited a movement and asked us to find our WHY Discover the book that is captivating millions on TikTok and that served as the basis for one of the most popular TED Talks of all time—with more than 56 million views and counting. Over a decade ago, Simon Sinek started a movement that inspired millions to demand purpose at work, to ask what was the WHY of their organization. Since then, millions have been touched by the power of his ideas, and these ideas remain as relevant and timely as ever. START WITH WHY asks (and answers) the questions: why are some people and organizations more innovative, more influential, and more profitable than others? Why do some command greater loyalty from customers and employees alike? Even among the successful, why are so few able to repeat their success over and over? People like Martin Luther King Jr., Steve Jobs, and the Wright Brothers had little in common, but they all started with WHY. They realized that people won't truly buy into a product, service, movement, or idea until they understand the WHY behind it. START WITH WHY shows that the leaders who have had the greatest influence in the world all think, act and communicate the same way—and it's the opposite of what everyone else does. Sinek calls this powerful idea The Golden Circle, and it provides a framework upon which organizations can be built, movements can be led, and people can be inspired. And it all starts with WHY.