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 | The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High Performance Organization by Jon Katzenbach and Douglas Smith | ||||||||||||||||||||||
This is far and away the best book on teams I have read, and I use it frequently in my organizational consulting and training work. Clients often assume that “teambuilding” is the answer to their problems. This book helps them (and me) determine if that is, in fact, the case. The authors lay out clearly what it takes for working groups to become high-performing teams, but more importantly it points out how “pseudo-teams”—groups that push for teamwork just because it sounds like a good thing—actually perform worse than working groups with no “team spirit” at all. It helps people at all levels of organizations better understand why their teams and work groups are not performing as well as they think they can. I particularly like the section on the importance of a “common approach to working together.” It also has great examples from the business world that demonstrate their points. The bad news is, that it’s one of the longer books on my list. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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