The Wisdom of Teams

Creating the High-Performance Organization

Jon R. Katzenbach, Douglas K. Smith

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English

Harvard Business School
02 November 2015

Economics & Business; Business strategy; Management: leadership & motivation; Management decision making; Organisational theory & behaviour

Teams are the key to top performance. It's long been known that teams, more so than single individuals and large groups, are the best at solving complex problems and delivering results. Great teams enabled Motorola to build the lightest, smallest, and highest-quality cell phones before the advent of the iPhone; Ford to leverage its Taurus brand to become the world's most profitable car manufacturer; and U.S. coalition forces to claim victory in Iraq during the Gulf War. But many companies don't have a proper understanding of how to form, organize, and utilize teams, and how teams play a key role in increasing profits, entering new markets, and coming up with new products and innovations, among many other objectives. In The Wisdom of Teams, authors Jon R. Katzenbach and Douglas K. Smith reveal the traits that make great teams great. Based on conversations with hundreds of people in more than thirty companies, they describe how teams work best and how to enhance their effectiveness.

By: Jon R. Katzenbach, Douglas K. Smith
Imprint: Harvard Business School
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 552g
ISBN: 9781633691063
ISBN 10: 1633691063
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 02 November 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jon R. Katzenbach has been with McKinsey & Company, Inc. for more than three decades, and since the mid-1980s has led the firm's worldwide organization performance and change practice. Douglas K. Smith is a leading commentator on organizational performance and change and a former McKinsey & Company, Inc. consultant who has coauthored two previous books: Sources of the African Past and Fumbling the Future: How Xerox Invented and Then Ignored the First Personal Computer.

Reviews for The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization

PRAISE for The Wisdom of Teams A thoughtful and well-written book filled with fascinating examples . . . You will be hard-pressed to find a better guide to the essential building block of the organization of the future. BusinessWeek An unusually thorough study of teams . . . As well as challenging much conventional wisdom about teams, the book is full of advice about how to organize properand properly effectiveteams. Financial Times The Wisdom of Teams captures the power and vision of what great business teams can accomplish. Its stories and lessons should be read and learned. Senator Bill Bradley Jon Katzenbach and Doug Smith have lived with high-performance teams for years. Now they share their meticulous observations with all of us in an important and timely book, brimming with useful detail. Tom Peters