Creating Teams with an Edge (Harvard Business Essentials)

I bought this book for my Team Leadership class and thought it was a great read. Easy to understand and straight tovyhe point.

All good.

Great price and good book...!!

Served the purpose !

Its a quick read about teams. It was interesting in it gave insightful information on how teams work

This is a very solid guide from the folks at Harvard Business School Press that provides the basics of how to create, use, and manage teams. It opens with a discussion of what a team is and is not (workgroups are not teams, for example) and the kind of work that teams are best suited for. The book also lays out the essentials for creating a team and what kinds of things the company must provide for it to succeed. Too many companies form teams and then proceed to undermine their work every step of the way. So, if you are going to be responsible for a team, this material can be vital to you before you agree to head out into the wilderness of your project.The information on how to form, constitute, and launch a team is terrific as is the advice supplied for the team manager. The first key is that the team leader is never to be in the "boss" role. The material provided on how to function as a team, how to work in a virtual team, and why you have to be a great team member to be an effective team leader is also very good.This is a solid, concise, and basic text that can help anyone get their team off to a great start and to avoid most of the land mines as you do you work.Reviewed by Craig Matteson, Ann Arbor, MI

This helpful guide from the Harvard Business Essentials Series will put you on the right track, whether you have just been assigned to a team or are considering forming a team to tackle a project. The writing is clear and concise, the advice is solid and the business principles are spot on. If you seek a guide about how to put a team together, get a project underway and manage it to fruition, you would be hard pressed to find better fundamental information in so few pages. We recommend this book to all aspiring team leaders, team members and managers.

I enjoyed this book about teams, it provided very good overal information on all of the different stages teams go through from start to finish. The book also included things that must be done, and things to avoid.This book will prepare the reader well to tackle challenging tasks with their teams. It will help determine what should be done individually, as a work group or as a team. Something I have personally experienced myself that they covered really well is the need to define the projet well as you assemble your teams, and also to define measures of success, roles, communcations methods and decision rules to be used by the team leader - Team leaders will find it very useful.Also a small section on vitual teams working together remotely which I think could have been more extensive, but still covered all of the needs of a virtual team, including the need to meet face to face at the start of the project to build the teamwork and cooperation spirit of the team.What I did not like? The main thing is that the book looked at teams mostly from the point of view of a large organization. Not much talk about small teams operating from small to medium enterprises, and how smaller and more flexible teams can also bring great benefits.Comments and your feel about this book? email me to discuss.ThanksA very good book on teams overall.