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The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance OrganizationBy Jon R. Katzenbach, Douglas K. SmithThe authors, who are both consultants, conducted extensive interviews with companies to discover how successful teams are created and sustained. The result is not a research report but a collection of... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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Organizational Learning and Competitive AdvantageBy Bertrand Moingeon, Amy EdmondsonOrganizations need to develop learning strategies to survive and develop in increasingly uncertain and changing markets. In this book, researchers from Europe and the United States explore theories of... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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Senior Leadership Teams: What It Takes to Make Them GreatBy Ruth Wageman, Debra A. Nunes, James A. Burruss, J. Richard HackmanAn organization's fate hinges on its CEO--right? Not according to the authors of Senior Leadership Teams. They argue that in today's world of neck-snapping change, demands on leaders in top roles are [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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Leading Teams: Setting the Stage for Great PerformancesBy J. Richard HackmanTeams 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 unsatisfacto... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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Groups That Work (and Those That Don't): Creating Conditions for Effective TeamworkBy J. Richard HackmanExplores the design and leadership of groups, providing detailed descriptions of twenty-seven diverse work groups--including task forces, top management groups, production teams, and customer service [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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The Discipline of Teams: A Mindbook-Workbook for Delivering Small Group PerformanceBy Jon R. Katzenbach and Douglas K. SmithThe authors, who are both consultants, conducted extensive interviews with companies to discover how successful teams are created and sustained. The result is not a research report but a collection of... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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How to Be a Creative Genius (in five minutes or less)By Gary UngerDo you want to be a creative genius? You may be only five minutes away! In this book author and advertising consultant Gary Unger exposes common misconceptions about creativity with his unique blend o... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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Who Are You When Nobody's Looking?By Marc MarsanWho Are You When Nobody's Looking? represents a genuine breakthrough in the self-development field. For the first time, the creative techniques that nurture new ideas and products for leading American... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His TimeBy Dava SobelThe thorniest scientific problem of the eighteenth century was how to determine longitude. Many thousands of lives had been lost at sea over the centuries due to the inability to determine an east-wes... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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Orchestrating Collaboration at Work: Using Music, Improv, Storytelling, and Other Arts to Improve TeamworkBy Arthur VanGundy, Linda NaimanOrchestrating Collaboration at Work is an activity book for trainers, coaches, mediators and facilitators, who want to use the arts to create transformative learning experiences in organizations. All [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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Flow: The Psychology of Optimal ExperienceBy Mihaly CsikszentmihalyiYou have heard about how a musician loses herself in her music, how a painter becomes one with the process of painting. In work, sport, conversation or hobby, you have experienced, yourself, the suspe... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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Jack's Notebook: A business novel about creative problem solvingBy Gregg FraleyProblems! Jack Huber has his share. But when he is introduced to the creative problem solving process from an unexpected source, life soon changes . . . drastically. Jack Huber dreams of being a pr... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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Competing for the FutureBy Gary Hamel and C. K. PrahaladHamel and Prahalad caution that complacent managers who get too comfortable in doing things the way they've always done will see their companies fall behind. For instance, the authors consider the bat... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition IrrelevantBy W. Chan Kim and Renée MauborgneKim and Mauborgne's blue ocean metaphor elegantly summarizes their vision of the kind of expanding, competitor-free markets that innovative companies can navigate. Unlike "red oceans," which are well [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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Dealing with Darwin: How Great Companies Innovate at Every Phase of Their EvolutionBy Geoffery A. Moore"Innovation" is one of the great buzzwords of management theory, but this treatise accords it a thoroughgoing analysis. Management consultant Moore, author of the bestselling Crossing the Chasm, argue... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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The Innovative Leader: How to Inspire Your Team and Drive CreativityBy Paul Sloane"Innovation is a key characteristic of great leaders... Paul's book provides practical tips to help anyone in their quest to develop their creative muscles." Mark Durrant, Communications Director, EME... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do BusinessBy Clayton M. ChristensenHow does a successful company with established products keeps from being pushed aside by newer, cheaper products that will, over time, get better and become a serious threat. Christensen writes that e... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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The Riddle: Where Ideas Come From and How to Have Better OnesBy Andrew RazeghiVoted a Smart Book for 2008 by Fast Company "Razeghi's self-help text is designed to assist the everyday genius in finding those 'ah-ha' ideas like those Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison came across [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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Why Not?: How to Use Everyday Ingenuity to Solve Problems Big And SmallBy Barry Nalebuff, Ian AyresThe authors believe invention can be automated. Why Not? outlines a populist high-octane approach to creative problem solving. "We aspire for this book to change the way people think about thei... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |
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Creativity in Virtual Teams: Key Components for Success (Collaborative Work Systems Series)By Jill NemiroDr. Nemiro has raised the standard on books on virtual creativity. As a magazine editor who works with writers from all over the continent, I can appreciate the comparison of differing virtual models.... [BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM] |