The Truth About Teams

"If you're considering self-managing teams for your own business, Business Without Bosses should be on your reading list."
--Managing Office Technology

"Anyone who wants to become or stay a manager needs to master this book's practical and philosophical lessons."
--Allan R. Cohen Vice President, Academic Affairs, Babson College and author, The Portable MBA in Management and Influence without Authority

"The 'real-world' case studies will appeal to executives who need answers, not theory, about self-managed...

Contemporary business organizations are increasingly structuring work around teams because teams can lead to substantial improvement in both the quality and the quantity of a firm's services and products. But, effective team development and organizing work around teams challenges a number of traditional management approaches and structures in an organization. This book was written for managers to understand the complex issues associated with teams and to develop the tools they need to increase their effectiveness as team designers, leaders, and members.

""SuperLeadership"" was coined by authors Charles Manz and Henry Sims to describe a management style that focuses on ""leading others to lead themselves."" In their earlier book of that title, they established a philosophy that moves away from the typical hierarchical models (the traditional autocratic, heroic, or directive approach to leadership) to show how to utilize the richest resource a company can have: employees who are empowered and transformed from followers into ""follower self-leaders,"" or superleaders.

In The New SuperLeadership, the authors bring this philosophy into the real...

""Failure"" is one of the most dreaded words in the English language. The very idea of failing is enough to stop most people in their tracks. It can cause the majority to simply pack up, turn around and retreat without even trying. Yet it is through seeming failure that most of life's greatest successes are achieved. The Power of Failure is designed to provide simple yet profound ways to turn what appear to be failures into successes. It contains practical prescriptions for successfully meeting some of life's most common setbacks. The lessons of this book can help us all find the...

This realistic guide to living and working with a sense of pleasure and empowerment stresses taking responsibility for feelings, doing things now that will fill an emotional reservoir for later use, reacting to emotionally challenging situations in balanced ways, and making choices to effectively deal with challenges as they arise. A five-step Emotional Discipline process helps readers identify the cause of emotional upset; focus on their body to analyze what they are feeling; focus on their mind, identifying thoughts and the beliefs that are driving them; and choose and apply an emotional...