Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (Second Edition): Tom DeMarco, Timothy Lister

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“I strongly recommend that you buy one copy of Peopleware for yourself and another copy for your boss. If you are a boss, then buy one for everyone in your department, and buy one for your boss.”

Demarco and Lister demonstrate that the major [...]

Leading Teams: Setting the Stage for Great Performances: J. Richard Hackman

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Winner of the 2004 George R. Terry Book Award! Teams have more talent and experience, more diverse resources, and greater operating flexibility than individual performers. So why do so many teams either struggle unpleasantly toward an unsatisfactory conclusion-or, worse, crash and burn shortly after launch? [...]

Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership: Joseph Jaworski, Betty Sue Flowers, Peter M Senge

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From Library Journal
Jaworski, the son of Watergate special prosecutor Leon Jaworski, here presents his personal philosophy of life. As founder of the American Leadership Forum, Jaworski espouses the value of servant leadership, which calls for leadership that is relationship-oriented, creative, and constructive. Additionally, he comments [...]

The One Minute Manager Builds High Performing Teams: Kenneth H. Blanchard, Donald Carew, Eunice Parisi-Carew

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This book is an invaluable addition to The One Minute Manager library because “it is clear that high-performing teams are the most important business trend for the 1990s,” according to Dr. Ken Blanchard and his collaborators explain the four states of development all groups move through and reveal how a manager [...]

Mastering Virtual Teams: Strategies, Tools, and Techniques That Succeed: Deborah L. Duarte, Nancy Tennant Snyder

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Office face-time may always play a critical role in certain corporate settings, but technology and globalization have combined to thrust “virtual meetings” into an increasingly important place on today’s overall business stage. With once-rigid boundaries of time, geography, and even organization now rapidly disappearing, members of [...]

Leadership for Dummies: Marshall Loeb, Stephen Kindel

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“A year had passed since our last strategy+business review of leadership book and CEO memoirs, so a trip to Borders was in order to see what was new in those categories. We discovered almost all the books in the management section had been published within [...]

The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization (Collins Business Essentials): Jon R. Katzenbach, Douglas K. Smith

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From Publishers Weekly
The importance of teams has become a cliche of modern business theory, but few have a clear idea of what it means. In this new edition of their best-selling primer, Katzenbach and Smith try to impart some analytical rigor to the concept. Drawing [...]

The McKinsey Engagement: A Powerful Toolkit For More Efficient and Effective Team Problem Solving: Ph.D.,Paul N. Friga

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The third volume in the internationally bestselling McKinsey Trilogy, The McKinsey Engagement is an action guide to realizing the consistently high level of business solutions achieved by the experts at the world�s most respected consulting. firms.
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Former consultant Dr. Paul Friga distills the guiding principles first presented in the bestselling The McKinsey Way [...]

Leading Teams: Setting the Stage for Great Performances: J. Richard Hackman

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Winner of the 2004 George R. Terry Book Award! Teams have more talent and experience, more diverse resources, and greater operating flexibility than individual performers. So why do so many teams either struggle unpleasantly toward an unsatisfactory conclusion-or, worse, crash and burn shortly after launch? [...]

Build Your Customer Strategy: A Guide to Creating Profitable Customer Relationships: James G. Barnes

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“The customer relationships that a company is able to cultivate represent the most important asset that will never appear on its balance sheet.” -From Chapter 1 of Build Your Customer Strategy
Build Your Customer Strategy: A Guide to Creating Profitable Customer Relationships spells out how [...]