"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,...

"In the style of other bestselling business fables, The Energy Bus takes you on an enlightening and inspiring ride that reveals ten secrets for approaching life and work with the kind of positive, forward thinking that leads to true accomplishment?at work and at home. Author Jon Gordon shows you how to turn negative energy into positive achievement" --Publisher description.

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...

"Strengthen and unify your finance team Teams are the principle building blocks of the strategy of successful organizations. The focus of your organization may be on service, quality, cost, value, speed, efficiency, performance, or any other similar goals, but teams remain the central methodology of most organizations across sectors. Vertical teams and horizontal teams can transcend organizational silos and boundaries if properly focused and supported....

In a business environment characterized by accelerating change and growing uncertainty, teams whose orientation spans both the internal organization and the external business ecosystem are nimbler and drive more innovation — and also serve to distribute leadership throughout the organization. The authors review the challenges of successfully implementing the x-team model of collaboration and describe the success factors common among high-performing...

Great teamwork is crucial for any high performing team, but being in a team is harder than ever before. Work is faster, leaner and more digital, and teamwork can be last on our list of priorities. Supercharged Teams will boost the way your team works together, whether you lead a team or belong to one. With 30 powerful tools for teamwork, supercharge your team to: Reset your team to work better together Adapt your team to new challenges, whether they...

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...

Transform team dynamics with practical, real-world tools for sustainable change Fix Your Team is the manager's essential and practical guide to diagnosis and intervention. Packed with expert insight acquired over decades of experience in workplace relations and conflict resolution, this book systematically addresses problems with team dynamics and provides a blueprint for moving forward. Authors Rose Bryant-Smith and Grevis Beard bring a unique combination...

"This book is designed for coaches looking to support organizations that have already decided to adopt the OKRs goal-setting. It provides a framework for coaching their clients along with templates and tools for success. It answers the following questions: How can we scale OKRs across a large organization with hundreds of departments? How can we set team-level OKRs to ensure cross-functional alignment rather than simply using the org chart to define...

The nature of product development is changing. The most successful innovations are those that come from teams of people who are exploring problems together. Teams that build meaningful releases of their products iteratively and incrementally are opening the door for early feedback so that decisions can be taken to persevere or pivot based on evidence. But how do you make the most out of a teams different perspectives, experiences and ideas? How can...