Editorial Review:
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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Pragmatic guidance for serios leaders 2008-09-22
Howard Guttman has a talent for translating what used to be thought of as a touchy feely topic into high impact, pragmaic leadership practices that get outstanding results. This book is not about feel-good exercises that create a temporary sense of comraderie that quickly fades under the pressures of business challenges and office politics. Instead, Guttman explains how to systematically build the honest and direct communication, full accountability, solid decision making and high expectations that create business teams and team members who compete successfully in the marketplace, and not with each other. This is not a book for people looking for a good idea or two on how to be an effective leader. It is much more. It is a masterful guide for serious leaders who want to create teams and organizations that consistently achieve higher and higher levels of performance. Well done!
Great Business Teams ...  2008-08-14
Great techniques for leaders to reach into their teams to identify strengths and barriers to high performance. More importantly, you gain insights into aligning behaviors with agreed upon actions that improve team effectiveness to achieve business results. Relevant and Actionable !
Excellent book 2008-08-04
Many books come across my desk as a department chair, and I send most to junior faculty to read. I held on to this one because I couldn't put it down. Very well written. Flawlessly edited. Full of content and references to business. In my last book about leadership In Extremis Leadership: Leading As If Your Life Depended On It (J-B Leader to Leader Institute/PF Drucker Foundation) I wrote about high performing teams in high risk contexts. But Guttman's book has much broader applicability and is laser focused on teams--it will soon be a classic among leaders and managers. It's the best book I read all summer. Great Business Teams will find its way into my classroom, but I'm even more excited about applying the ideas in this book to the teams that I help lead. This one's a gem. Tom Kolditz
Must read for all leaders 2008-07-30
I am a small business owner who was very impressed with this book. It was very interesting reading about the team strategies that work best in corporate America.
Very insightful look at the mechanics of high-performance business teams 2008-07-24
I used to think that it was impossible to create a high performing business team. My thinking was guided by the old axiom that you cannot teach an old dog a new trick. This book totally changed my viewpoint by showing me not only how it can be done, but tangible proof that it works. I found this book to be insightful, practical, well-organized and extremely useful. I particularly enjoyed the discussion about "the five musts for building great organizations." This book should be required reading for all managers and executives.
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