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Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (24 Jun 2008)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0470122439
ISBN-13: 978-0470122433
Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 16 x 2.3 cm

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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.

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What makes great business teams stand apart? Some senior executive teams are undaunted by even the toughest business challenges, overcoming them and even using them as opportunities to transform the way their organization operates and performs.

In Great Business Teams, renowned business consultant Howard M. Guttman takes you inside some of the world′s most successful corporations—Johnson & Johnson, Novartis, Mars Incorporated, and L′Oréal, to name a few—to discover how a powerful new high–performance horizontal model has changed the way leaders lead, team members function, challenges are met, and decisions are made. He also reveals how and why the organizations that have implemented this innovative team structure have become great companies, able to ride the crosscurrents during lean times and truly soar when opportunities arise.

Guttman bases his keen insights on more than twenty–five years of work with major corporations. In Great Business Teams, you will meet thirty–nine senior executives from twenty–five standout companies, whom he has interviewed in depth and whose performance he has tracked over time. This hands–on guide delivers all of the insights, techniques, and hard–won wisdom needed to create, operate, and sustain well–run and effective business teams that consistently achieve the highest levels of performance.

Follow Novartis Oncology′s CEO and his action teams as they successfully neutralize a competitor′s new product, which had been projected to grab twenty to thirty percent of market share. Learn how newly reorganized teams in Mars Inc.′s Latin American Division moved from double–digit losses to double–digit growth in a single year. These and many other tales from the trenches show you how to:

Ratchet up team performance to get stellar results year after year
Become a high–performance leader and motivate others to become high–performance players
Align teams to drive up performance
Redefine the concept of individual and team accountability
Develop the skills to make every team member a leader
Improve results through the "distributive decision–making" model
Create great teams throughout your organization

Great teams do more than improve a company′s performance; they continually raise the bar and redefine what "high performance" means. Read Great Business Teams, crack the code, and transform your organization into teams of highly motivated top performers who are ready, willing, and able to respond to any business challenge.

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5.0 out of 5 stars How developing high-performance individuals and teams will create and then sustain a high-performance organization, 5 Jun 2009

By	Robert Morris (Dallas, Texas) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

Howard Guttman draws upon several decades of wide and deep experience will thousands of executives within hundreds of companies throughout the world when offering in this volume everything he has learned about how developing high-performance individuals and teams will create and then sustain a high-performance organization. He asserts that there is a "code" to be cracked and cites several dozen examples of executives who have done so. He correctly points out that effective collaboration is essential at all levels and in all areas of an organization, whatever its size and nature may be. Moreover, the focus must be on cross-functional team initiatives.

"Great teams make great organizations. Period, Good and mediocre teams make good and mediocre organizations. They meet deadlines; they stay within budget; they maintain the status quo. But they do not push the envelope. They do not typically reach for performance breakthroughs. It is unlikely they will set the world on fire. And over the long haul, they will take you out of the game." According to Guttman, great business teams are led by high-performance leaders who create a "burning platform" for change, are visionaries and architects, know they cannot do it alone, build and nourish authentic relationships, model the behaviors they expect from their team members, and in unique and effective ways "redefine" the fundamentals of leadership. I wholly agree with Guttman that members of great teams are "us-directed": they tend to use only first-personal plural pronouns (i.e. we, us, our). Great teams play by protocols such as these ten agree-upon ways of working together at Chico's FAS in areas such as conflict resolution, decision making, meetings, and when determining performance expectations for both individual team members and for their leader:

1. Be candid and straightforward.
2. Be receptive to others' points of view.
3. Be accountable for your results and behavior.
4. Hold others accountable for their results and behavior.
5. Let go of "stories."
6. Resolve it or let it go.
7. Do not triangulate.
8. Do not accuse or allege in absentia.
9. Depersonalize (i.e. focus on issues, not individuals)
10. Structure decision making and follow process.

Guttman asserts that great teams continually raise the performance bar rather than allow complacency. They also have a supportive performance management system that provides whatever resources may be needed. "In order to effect permanent behavior change, a team's performance management system must support the new expectations [perhaps what Jim Collins characterizes as a "BHAG," a Big Hairy Audacious Goal]. Team and individual goals have to be crystal clear; the necessary technical and interpersonal skills have to be provided; performance has to be monitored; and feedback has to be timely and well thought out...Unless there are positive consequences for staying there [in support on the given initiatives] - and negative ones for retreating - most people will quickly revert to old, safe ways of behaving. That is why great teams only flourish when there are positive consequences [e.g. financial incentives and rewards] for embracing team values and negative ones for flouting them."

The Chico's FAS list of protocols is but one example of reader-friendly devices that Guttman skillfully uses through his narrative. Others include self-audit questions to determine how well one is adapted to the player-centric leadership imperative (Pages 39-40), six principles that can guide and inform the development of leadership (Pages 41-43), characteristics of the mindset of a "great player" (Pages 50-60), a graphic illustrating the four stages of team development from hierarchical to horizontal (Pages 82), how great teams make decisions (Pages 131-133), several behavioral protocols that great teams insist on (Page 147), how to mange key issues (Pages 148-149), ten elements of high-performance communication (Pages 156-158), and the five "musts" for building great organizations (Pages 171-1281). Readers will also appreciate Guttman's provision of two appendices, a review of the key components of "Player-Centered Leadership" and then a review of "The Skills of a Great Team Member."

One of Guttman's most important points, reiterated throughout his narrative, is that all great leaders are also great team members, and, that all team members must also provide leadership. What he proposes is high-performance collaboration within the structure of a meritocracy. "Cracking that code does not guarantee a perfect outcome every time you engage in competitive play. But, by changing your game, you will acquire a sustained competitive advantage and the ability to excel in a very different marketplace. Make the change and you will likely join the ranks of the great leaders and teams" he discusses in his book. I congratulate Howard Guttman on what I consider to be a brilliant achievement.

Those who share my high regard for this book are urged to check out Jim Collins' How the Mighty Fall, and Why Some Companies Never Give In, Guy Kawasaki's Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition, Rodd Wagner and James K. Harter's 12: The Elements of Great Managing (based on Gallup's ten million workplace interviews), The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World co-authored by Ronald Heifetz, Alexander Grashow, and Marty Linsky, Dean R. Spitzer's Transforming Performance Measurement: Rethinking the Way We Measure and Drive Organizational Success, and Enterprise Architecture as Strategy co-authored by Jeanne W. Ross, Peter Weill, and David Robertson.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Powerful team performance boosters, 5 May 2009

By	Rolf Dobelli "getAbstract.com" (Switzerland) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

Howard Guttman gives readers a sophisticated view of all the factors that go into creating high-performing, exceptionally successful teams. He doesn't pretend that a single magic bullet can transform your team; instead, he provides a well-organized guide that shows you how leaders contribute, what team members must bring, why management support is needed to transform a good team into a great one and how coaching can accelerate a team's transformation. The book provides a great discussion on how top teams make decisions, how they communicate, and how they decide which meetings to hold and how to hold them. The book is full of ideas and illustrative stories from Guttman's consultancy, but you never feel that he is selling his consulting services or holding back any information. getAbstract recommends this sensible and useful book to team managers and members.

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