Extreme Teams looks at the new generation of teams driving growth in today's most innovative firms. They do this by tossing conventional wisdom and doing things differently. The book takes you inside these bold companies and examines the teamwork experiments powering their results, including how: •Pixar's teams use rapid-cycle feedback and no-holds debate to transform initially flawed films into billion-dollar hits •A culture of radical "freedom...

"Leading a fast-growing team is a uniquely challenging experience. Startups with a hot product often double or triple in size quickly a recipe for chaos if company leaders aren't prepared for the pitfalls of hyper-growth. If you're leading a startup or a new team between 10 and 150 people, this guide provides a practical approach to managing your way through these challenges. Each section covers essential strategies and tactics for managing growth,...

Understand the dynamics of all different types of teams Beyond Team Building: How to Build High Performing Teams and the Culture to Support Them represents the latest in thinking about creating effective teams. The authors present a new "Five C" framework that focuses on the core aspects of team building. The book helps the reader assess how his/her team is performing on each of the 5Cs'context, composition, competencies, change, and collaborative...

Communicate, congregate and collaborate more effectively than ever Smart Teams will help your team to go beyond personal productivity to enhance team productivity. Building on the concepts presented in Smart Work, which focuses on personal productivity, this book shows you how to turn unproductive team behaviours that create friction into 'superproductive' behaviours that promote flow. Productivity is, at its core, a leadership issue-and this book...

A groundbreaking book that sheds new light on the vital importance of teams as the fundamental unit of organization and competition in the global economy. Teams-we depend on them for both our professional success and our personal happiness. But isn't it odd how little scrutiny we give them? The teams that make up our lives are created mostly by luck, happenstance, or circumstance-but rarely by design. In trivial matters-say, a bowling team, the leadership...

In this lesson we'll talk about culture, with a strong focus on various communication techniques that contribute to success. We'll identify how these techniques can be used to create any product more efficiently with a team of humans.

"A record-breaking adventurer and leadership consultant draws on his extraordinary experiences to show how our mistakes can actually help us achieve our goals-if we ask five crucial questions about them"--

Why do some teams work but others don't? This book reveals the secrets to high performing teams from every walk of life so you can make your team a success. Learn from the success stories of sport, military and restaurants and improve your teamwork. Effective teamworking is a perennial issue - there are so many difficulties and traps. We have all worked in teams and seen problems such as conflict, low engagement, lack of purpose and accountability...