Doing More with Teams The New Way to Winning
by Piasecki, BruceFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2013-03-11
Publisher(s): Wiley
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Summary
A new model for productive teamwork that generates wealth From instincts as ancient as our hunter and gatherer stages, men and women have worked in teams. But what have we really learned about these drives and desires in a lasting way? Does all of the selfishness and scandal in business and government today suggest we have spilt the special sauce of teamwork? Doing More With Teams explores what can be done to encourage a new form a competition so that organizations complete the challenges before them to drive growth and get results. From New York Times bestselling author, Bruce Piasecki offers new grounds for the idea of teamwork, and challenges the perception that individualism is the only way to wealth. Lays out a solid set of principles that work in all kinds of teams Author Bruce Piasecki's previous book, Doing More with Less, is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestseller Doing More With Teams enlightens the world to a new, more ethical, more collaborative way forward.
Author Biography
BRUCE PIASECKI is President and founder of AHC Group, Inc., a management consulting firm. For more than thirty years, AHC Group has focused on the critical areas of corporate governance consulting, energy, and environmental strategy, product innovation, and sustainability strategy. Whether working with Toyota, Shaw Industries, Suncor Energy, or FMC, Bruce and his team show companies how to compete on price, quality, and social needs. Piasecki has evolved from a niche expert on environmental issues for Fortune 500 corporations to a mainstream advocate for sustainable strategies for everyone. He has taught at Cornell University, Clarkson University, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, becoming a tenured faculty member and then a director of a master of science graduate program. Piasecki holds a PhD and bachelor's degree from Cornell University, where he was a Cornell National Scholar Award winner. He is the author of the bestselling Doing More with Less (Wiley).
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Winning without Weapons: A Preamble 1
PART I WHAT MAKES THIS CENTURY SEVERE? 11
Chapter 1 To Be Young Forever Is No Fun 13
Chapter 2 Aging across the Ages 33
PART II WHAT MAKES THIS CENTURY SWIFT? 57
Chapter 3 Team Coherence: Readjusting Your Gaze 59
Chapter 4 Team Integrity: Extending Our Wings 83
PART III A NEW KIND OF WINNING 101
Chapter 5 Lance Armstrong and the Pleasures of Accomplishment 103
Chapter 6 Freedom and Fate in Teams 129
Appendix A Bruce Piasecki’s Core Team: The AHC Group 147
Appendix B Near Future Training 157
Also by Bruce Piasecki 163
Index 165
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