Ignition: A Guide to Building High-Performing Teams

by Gordon J. Curphy, Dianne L. Nilsen, Robert Hogan

Teams vary widely in terms of their goals and their composition, and this variability matters in many ways. Nonetheless, there is one right way to build a team, and many wrong ways—when it comes to team building, how you do it doesn’t depend on the circumstances as much as it depends on leadership. This book is the best single source available anywhere on how to carry out the fundamental task of leadership. It is a systematic, explicit, detailed, experience-based, and valid account of howto build a high-performing team.

Genres: Business, Leadership

519 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 3, 2019

Reviews

[Nora · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent guide to leading high-performing teams with practical applications for new leaders, broken teams, matrixed teams, etc. It also provides an action plan for identifying high potentials for leading teams that doesn't rely on individual contributor characteristics.