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Truth About Making All Your Employees Feel Like Your Only Employee, The By: William S. Kane Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 13-SEP-2010 Insert Date: 12-OCT-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Truth About Making All Your Employees Feel Like Your Only Employee, The This Element is an excerpt from The Truth
About Thriving in Change (9780132354622) by William S. Kane.
Available in print and digital formats.
How to treat every member of your team like
they matter — and mean it!
To build bridges with your team, you must
appreciate and respect the offerings and backgrounds of all
parties, whatever their gender, age, religion, or heritage. You
have to broaden your perspective. You must sincerely make
everyone feel important, relate to each person differently, and
treat everyone with dignity. Here are some tips for doing all
that......
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22. |  The Executive and the Elephant: A Leader's Guide for Building Inner Excellence By: Richard L. Daft Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 02-AUG-2010 Insert Date: 12-AUG-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Executive and the Elephant: A Leader's Guide for Building Inner Excellence
Lessons for leaders on resolving the ongoing struggle between instinct and the creative mind
Kings, heads of government, and corporate executives lead thousands of people and manage endless resources, but may not have mastery over themselves. Often leaders know that right action is important, but have little (if any) understanding of what prevents them from acting in accordance with their intentions. In this important book, leadership expert Richard Daft portrays this dilemma as a struggle between instinct (elephant) and intention (the executive) using the most current research on the...
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Shared Goals, Shared Knowledge, and Mutual Respect = A Shared Mission By: James F. Parker Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 30-JUN-2010 Insert Date: 04-JUL-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Shared Goals, Shared Knowledge, and Mutual Respect = A Shared Mission This Element is an excerpt from Do the
Right Thing: How Dedicated Employees Create Loyal Customers and
Large Profits (9780132343343) by James F. Parker. Available in
print and digital formats.
Why teamwork across organizational
boundaries is even more important than you realize--and how you can
promote it.
The term Jody Hoffer Gittell used to
describe Southwest’s greatest competitive advantage,
“relational coordination,” is basically an academic
term for teamwork. In other words, people work across functional
lines to achieve common goals. Through field research and
statistical analysis,...
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24. |  Nice Teams Finish Last: The Secret to Unleashing Your Team's Maximum Potential By: Brian Cole Miller Publisher: AMACOM Publication Date: 15-MAY-2010 Insert Date: 14-MAY-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Nice Teams Finish Last: The Secret to Unleashing Your Team's Maximum Potential
There's nothing nice about lack of results. This powerful book of exercises helps teams get less "nice" and become more effective.
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25. |  Extraordinary Groups: How Ordinary Teams Achieve Amazing Results By: Geoffrey M. Bellman; Kathleen D. Ryan Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 22-SEP-2009 Insert Date: 07-APR-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Extraordinary Groups: How Ordinary Teams Achieve Amazing Results
Two leading experts present a new approach to help teams nurture extraordinary experiences and excel
Occasionally we participate in a group that inspires us to describe the experience as "powerful" or simply "wow." Why are some teams described in such exceptional terms, while most are not? Bellman and Ryan argue that an extraordinary group emerges when a group experience satisfies two or more core needs that members intuitively bring to any group they join. Based on extensive research, the book presents the Group Needs Model to help anyone nurture extraordinary experiences in their...
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26. |  The Handbook of High Performance Virtual Teams: A Toolkit for Collaborating Across Boundaries By: Jill Nemiro; Michael M. Beyerlein; Lori Bradley; Susan Beyerlein Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 28-MAR-2008 Insert Date: 07-APR-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Handbook of High Performance Virtual Teams: A Toolkit for Collaborating Across Boundaries
The Handbook of High-Performance Virtual Teams is an essential resource for leaders, virtual team members, and work group leaders. The editors provide a proved framework based on five principles for working collaboratively across boundaries of time, space, and culture. Written by experts in the field, the contributors offer practical suggestions and tools for virtual team who need to assess their current level of effectiveness and develop strategies for improvement. This important resource also contains an array of illustrative cases as well as practical tools for designing, implementing,...
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27. |  The Jazz Process: Collaboration, Innovation, and Agility By: Adrian Cho Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 08-JUN-2010 Insert Date: 27-MAR-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Jazz Process: Collaboration, Innovation, and Agility "An insider’s guide to translating
the creative techniques of jazz to the business
world.”
Scott Berkun, author of The Myths of
Innovation
What Can Your Team Learn From Jazz
Musicians?
Experienced jazz musicians apply specific
principles to collaborate, execute, and manage change in real
time--delivering extraordinary innovation in the face of non-stop
pressure and risk. Now, jazz musician and collaboration expert
Adrian Cho shows how you can use the same principles to
dramatically improve any team’s performance.
Cho systematically introduces the Jazz
Process and demonstrates how it...
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28. |  Why Teams Win: 9 Keys to Success In Business, Sport and Beyond By: Saul L. Miller Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 04-MAY-2009 Insert Date: 20-MAR-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Why Teams Win: 9 Keys to Success In Business, Sport and Beyond
A leading sports psychologist reveals the 9 keys to winning, no matter what kind of team you're on-in business, sports, or life.
PRAISE FOR WHY TEAMS WIN
"Bursting with ideas, suggestions and great stories that the sports fan will love and the business person can use to create their own future. Dr. Miller's 'Nine Qualities' are bang on". - Gordon Huston, President & Chief Officer and Envision Member, Envision Credit Union
"Saul Miller has for over 30 years made contributions to the success of teams, businesses, and athletes. Saul has used tried-and-true methods and introduced...
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29. |  An Ideas Into Action Guidebook: Critical Reflections: How Groups Can Learn from Success and Failure By: Chris Ernst; André Martin Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership Publication Date: 01-JAN-2006 Insert Date: 23-JAN-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: An Ideas Into Action Guidebook: Critical Reflections: How Groups Can Learn from Success and Failure
When people work together over time, certain key events stand out as having the potential to teach lasting lessons for the future. Leaders can use the Critical Reflections process to help their groups learn these lessons, whether the key event was a great success or a wretched failure. The goal is to affect future outcomes in similar situations: either to repeat the current success or to avoid repeating the same mistake.
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30. |  An Ideas Into Action Guidebook: Raising Sensitive Issues In a Team By: Dennis Lindoerfer Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership Publication Date: 01-JAN-2008 Insert Date: 23-JAN-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: An Ideas Into Action Guidebook: Raising Sensitive Issues In a Team
Have you ever wondered how to deal with a sensitive issue within your team? For example, how do you raise the issue that the women rarely get listened to? How do you bring up your observation that the team members from Marketing always dominate the meetings? This guidebook focuses on ways to determine whether to raise such an issue in a team meeting—and if so, how.
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31. |  By: Dan Bobinski Publisher: Career Press Publication Date: 01-JUN-2009 Insert Date: 21-DEC-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Creating Passion-Driven Teams
Can passion be taught? Can it be fostered? The answer is yes. But perhaps more accurately, a team leader must create the right conditions for passion to emerge. Those conditions must be nurtured, not unlike a gardener creating the right conditions for his plants to flourish.
Make your job easier. Get the inside scoop on the secrets of success that motivate teams to top performance. In the matrix of workplace roles and responsibilities, managers are pivotal to corporate success. Yet a manager is often the unsung hero who must adapt to demands from all sides—and do so with little or no...
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32. |  6 Habits of Highly Effective Teams By: Stephen E. Kohn; Vincent D. O’Connell Publisher: Career Press Publication Date: 01-MAY-2007 Insert Date: 21-DEC-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: 6 Habits of Highly Effective Teams
I follow the 6 Habits of Highly Effective Teams model not simply because it works so well, but also because it is so sensible, so easily understood by team members, and so implementable. The book is impressive in how applicable it is to real situations, in real organizations, involving real team-building issues. I return to it often to get grounded once again in the core principles of teamwork that Kohn and O’Connell advocate.”
—Dr. Laila El Sayed, project engineer, Dupont iTechnologies
In the modern organization, considerable responsibility and authority are delegated to and exercised...
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33. |  The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 11-APR-2002 Insert Date: 29-MAY-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
In The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Patrick Lencioni once again offers a leadership fable that is as enthralling and instructive as his first two best-selling books, The Five Temptations of a CEO and The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive. This time, he turns his keen intellect and storytelling power to the fascinating, complex world of teams.
Kathryn Petersen, Decision Tech's CEO, faces the ultimate leadership crisis: Uniting a team in such disarray that it threatens to bring down the entire company. Will she succeed? Will she be fired? Will the company fail? Lencioni's...
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34. |  By: Glenn M. Parker Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 08-FEB-2008 Insert Date: 29-MAY-2009 Slots: 1.0 |
Praise for Team Players and Teamwork
"In the new edition of Team Players and Teamwork Glenn Parker updates his landmark compendium on the essential effect of cross-functional teamwork to encompass the added complexities of globalization facing team leaders and team members in the twenty-first century. Anyone participating on or managing members of a cross-functional team will benefit from reading this essential guide to successful teamwork."
-Jeffrey W. Warmke, vice president, global project management and leadership, Daiichi Sankyo Pharma Development
"Glenn Parker has the unique...
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35. |  Building Conflict Competent Teams By: Craig E. Runde; Tim A. Flanagan Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 23-JUN-2008 Insert Date: 22-MAY-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Building Conflict Competent Teams
Understanding how to cool down, slow down, and engage the naturally occurring conflicts among team members is critical to the ultimate success of a team. With this book, your team and its members will gain a deeper understanding of how conflict emerges and how to respond in ways that will leverage conflicts to their advantage. Team members will learn the importance of establishing a safe team climate, agreeing on processes to guide interactions, and use of constructive communication skills in order to develop a conflict competent team.
As the authors say, conflict is not to be avoided,...
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36. |  The Pfeiffer Book of Successful Team-Building Tools: The Best of the Annuals By: Elaine Biech Publisher: Pfeiffer Publication Date: 26-OCT-2008 Insert Date: 17-MAY-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Pfeiffer Book of Successful Team-Building Tools: The Best of the Annuals
Year after year, consultants, trainers, and human resource professionals have come to rely on The Pfeiffer
Annuals to provide them with the most current and quality tools on a wide variety of topics. In this book, editor Elaine Biech and contributors to the Annuals have honed in on the important theme of team building to create the first topic-specific book in The Pfeiffer
Annuals series. The Pfeiffer Book of Successful Team-Building Tools, 2nd Edition, includes an innovative ten-block model for building a high-performance team and draws on the best-on-the-topic articles from...
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37. |  By: Andrew Stellman; Jennifer Greene Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 27-MAR-2009 Insert Date: 20-MAR-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Beautiful Teams
What's it like to work on a great software development team facing
an impossible problem? How do you build an effective team? Can a
group of people who don't get along still build good software? How
does a team leader keep everyone on track when the stakes are high
and the schedule is tight?
Beautiful Teams takes you behind the scenes with some of
the most interesting teams in software engineering history. You'll
learn from veteran team leaders' successes and failures, told
through a series of engaging personal stories -- and interviews --
by leading programmers, architects, project...
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38. |  By: Robert Heller Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Limited Publication Date: 26-APR-1999 Insert Date: 26-FEB-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Managing Teams
Learn all you need to know about successful team management, from building up a team that functions effectively to achieving the desired results. Managing Teams shows you how to establish a productive environment and exploit group dynamics, and it also provides practical techniques to try in different settings. Power tips help you handle real-life situations and develop the first-class team-management skills that are the key to a productive and informed workplace.
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39. |  The Truth About Leading Teams: The Essential Truths in 20 Minutes By: Martha I. Finney Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 20-FEB-2008 Insert Date: 11-NOV-2008 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Truth About Leading Teams: The Essential Truths in 20 Minutes Praise for The Truth About Getting the
Best from People
"Finally, a no-nonsense primer for leaders
on how to build...and keep...extraordinary talent. This book should
be in the briefcase of every exec in the world and should be pulled
out every day for a refresher on how to be a real
leader."
Dan Walker, Former Chief Talent
Officer for Apple, Inc.
"A fun and easy-to-read blueprint on
understanding and creating engagement within a team. No high
falootin' business jargon here--Martha Finney tells it like it is.
She helps supervisors and managers uncover the secrets of employee
engagement...
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40. |  Managing Without Walls: Maximize Success with Virtual, Global, and Cross-Cultural Teams By: Colleen Garton; Kevin Wegryn Publisher: MC Press Publication Date: 01-NOV-2006 Insert Date: 05-SEP-2008 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Managing Without Walls: Maximize Success with Virtual, Global, and Cross-Cultural Teams
As companies worldwide are moving more and more toward a
virtual business model, this handbook offers insight for team
members who collaborate on projects from geographically diverse
locations. Included in this comprehensive reference guide is
an explanation of virtual management and advice on how
to coach and develop team members with
success from far-off office locations. This
practical discussion provides the teaching skills needed to
help the current manager understand the complexity of the
job and to be effective in this new and changing
role. Sample evaluations prepare the prospective...
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