Leading Teams: Setting the Stage for Great Performances
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| Rating | : | 4.44 (825 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1578513332 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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Richard Hackman is the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Social and Organizational Psychology at Harvard University.. J
Hackman takes his extensive knowledge of how to effectively lead teams and mixes it with insightful research and humor, providing the reader with a powerful prescription for improving team performance." -Dave Bushy, Former Senior Vice President of Flight Operations and 747 Captain, Delta Airlines "Richard Hackman provides real-world tools that challenge everything you thought you knew about creating high-performing teams. I found myself cheering each time he demolished a popular but wrongheaded conception of how to lead teams and provided a common sense answer in its stead." -Michael Putz, Senior Manager, Business Development and Strategy, Cisco Systems . A gem for practitioners and researchers alike." -Chris Argyris, James B. Conant Professor Emeritus, Harvard University and Director, Monitor Group "In Leading Teams Dr. From the Back Cover "Written with exceptional clarity and wit, and teeming with original, down-to-earth advice, Leading Teams is indispensable r
"Would not recommend." according to Amazon Customer. Hackman could have made each point faster and much more concise. Something that should take only a few paragraphs to explain seemed to take the author many pages and often the additional content became a distraction. Often I would have to read the material more than once to determine value add vs. non-value. A nice starting point, but that's as far as it goes I bought this book as a textbook for a course on leading teams and read it cover to cover. The Hackman model is a nice model and eye opener for anyone who has never given deep thought on team effectiveness and the border context teams are in. However more sophisticated readers may find it to be lacking in s. Deserves the praise K. Whitney I saw this book referenced in a Harvard Business Review blog post and it was regarded as one of the "standards" by which other work is measured. So, I checked out the author and other references. All of the references treated this work the same- as the "standard".I am not disappointed. The text has many rea
Rather, it is about applying a concise set of guiding principles to each unique group situation—and doing so in the leader's own idiosyncratic way. Authoritative and astutely realistic, Leading Teams offers a new and provocative way of thinking about and leading work teams in any organizational setting.. Richard Hackman, one of the world's leading experts on group and organizational behavior, argues that teams perform at their best when leaders create conditions that allow them to manage themselves ef