Leading Teams: Expert Solutions to Everyday Challenges

by Harvard Business Publishing (compiler)

Leading productive teams requires laying the groundwork for success and following through effectively. This guide offers immediately actionable advice on how to choose the right team members; clarify goals, rules, and responsibilities; foster trust, creativity, and risk taking; and resolve conflicts and maximize productivity.

The Pocket Mentor Series offers immediate solutions to common challenges managers face on the job every day. Each book in the series is packed with handy tools, self-tests, and real life examples to help you identify your strengths and weaknesses and hone critical skills. Whether you're at your desk, in a meeting, or on the road, these portable guides enable you to tackle the daily demands of your work with greater speed, savvy, and effectiveness.

Genres: Business, Management, Leadership, Nonfiction

100 pages, Paperback

First published February 28, 2006

About the author

Harvard Business Publishing (HBP) is a publisher founded in 1994 as a not-for-profit, independent corporation and an affiliate of Harvard Business School (distinct from Harvard University Press), with a focus on improving business management practices. The company offers articles, books, case studies, simulations, videos, learning programs, and digital tools to organizations and subscribers.
HBP consists of three market units: Education, Corporate Learning, and Harvard Business Review Group. Their offering consists of print and digital media (Harvard Business Review, Harvard Business Review Press books, Harvard Business School cases), events, digital learning (Harvard ManageMentor, HMM Spark), blended learning, and campus experiences.

Reviews

[Sicofonia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Leading Teams is a nice little book that contains few tips and tools for managing and leading a productive team. It is very basic, but the quality that I welcomed the most was its simplicity and unassuming text.
Topics covered includes how to form a team, set its purpose and ground rules, select team members, solve conflict and evaluate performance. At the end of the book there's a comprehensive bibliography and (most valuable) a set of surveys you can use to perform a health-check on your team or yourself.

It's by no means a groundbreaking book, however as it is a short one and is part of the Pocket Mentor series I did not expect anything of depth. This book serves its purpose well.

[Stephanie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Quick easy read.

[Dave · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not too much groundbreaking info here. Few key points on cross functional teams and team responsibilities. Glad I picked this up in the cutout section at Half Price!

[Abdulrahman Sharif · Rating 3 out of 5]

Although it is a small one but it is a great reading and practicing on it . I think this book is for those who are looking for some tools or a guided methods on creating, evaluating and following up teams . I liked it and it did help me with my lovely team .

[Oli Ogbonna · Rating 4 out of 5]

Leading cross functional teams can be quite tasking
This book gives advice on how to deal with these challenges.
The self assessment questions are quite helpful for team leaders

[Ubechu Anthony]

good