MEMO TO THE CEO

Harvard Business Review on Building Better Teams by Bob Frisch, 2011

This is a bit dated in places and quite expensive to purchase today. If you need the best practices and ideas for superior team-building—but don’t have time to find them—this might work for you. It includes ten articles designed to help you:

  • Boost team performance through mutual accountability
  • Motivate large, diverse groups to tackle complex projects
  • Increase groups’ emotional intelligence
  • Reverse the fortunes of a struggling team
  • Prevent decision deadlock
  • Extract results from a bunch of touchy superstars
  • Fight constructively with top-management colleagues
  • Ensure productivity in far-flung teams