Great Business Teams

Understand and decode the inner workings of great business teams with the more than 30 in-depth examples in Great Business Teams: Cracking the Code for Standout Performance. Author Howard Guttman examines and dissects teams at top-management, business-unit, and functional levels and isolates five key factors that drive team performance to offer you insight into the ways these teams achieve success. Using this book, go directly to the marketplace to scrutinize teams in a variety of industries, evaluating the challenges they face and the methods they choose to manage these challenges.

Preface ix Acknowledgments xi Chapter 1 Cracking the High-Performance Code 1 Chapter 2 The New High-Performance Leader 19 Chapter 3 The New High-Performance Player 47 Chapter 4 Aligning for High Performance 79 Chapter 5 Accelerating to High Performance 111 Chapter 6 How Great Teams Make Decisions 125 Chapter 7 How Great Teams Manage Meetings 141 Chapter 8 How Great Teams Communicate 155 Chapter 9 From Great Teams to a Great Organization 169 Chapter 10 Great Leaders and Teams: Challenges, Responses, and Remaining Issues 185 Appendix A Player-Centered Leadership 203 Appendix B The Skills of a Great Team Member 209 Index 231