Leadership Trapeze: Strategies for Leadership in Team-Based Organizations (The Jossey-Bass Management Series) - Tapa dura

Managing a self-managing team is no longer an oxymoron! This book blends theory and real-life examples in a practical guide for those who manageor want to managein a team-based setting. I wish our managers had this resource when we started our self-manaing work teams in 1987!'' --Jeffrey Hahn, second vice president, Insurance Services, Aid Association for Lutherans A practical how-to' guide for everyonetop management, team leaders, and support professionalsto use in coaching team development. Our team members could have saved many sleepless nights if this book had been available a year ago. Leadership Trapeze will become one of our development resources alongside Empowered Teams!'' --Dave Natysin, regional vice president, McDonald's Corporation This is a down-to-earth guidebook that can help to make the often-frustrating transition to self-directed teams a satisfactory experience for everyone involved.'' The authors discuss the element of new leadership' in the age of team-based organizations and provide thoughtful and practical help for anyone making the transition.... Gritty issues like burnout, dealing with skepticism, building trust, and working with virtual' teams also make this book useful.''

This book helps managers understand their changing roles in creating a more empowered culture through self-directed teams. Through interviews with leaders of self-directed teams, the authors show how others have remastered the changes and acquired new behaviors to succeed as their teams have developed and matured. Approx.