Who's in the Room How Great Leaders Structure and Manage the Teams Around Them

Summary: Is your company run by a team with no name?At the top of every organization chart lies a myth & mdash;that a Senior Management Team makes a company's critical decisions. The reality is that critical decisions are typically made by the boss and a small group of confidants & mdash;a "team with no name" & mdash;outside of formal processes. Meanwhile, other members of the management team wonder why they weren't in the room or even consulted ahead of time. The dysfunction that results from this gap between myth and reality has led to years of unproductive team building exercises. The problems, Frisch sho.

Record details

ISBN: 9781118170076 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1118170075 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9781118170083 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1118170083 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (210 p.)
Publisher: Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons, 2012.

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Formatted Contents Note:

Who's in the Room?; Contents; Introduction: Who's in the Room?; Part One: From Problem to Portfolio; 1 Most Companies Are Run by Teams with No Names; The Myth of the Top Team; Illusion and Reality; The Problem That Isn't There, But Won't Go Away; 2 Team Building Won't Solve the Problem; When the Shrinks Go Marching In; After the Shrinks Have Gone; 3 Don't Blame the Boss; In Search of the Ideal Leader; Inside the Box; Do the ''Rights'' Thing; 4 Four Fundamental Conflicts at the Heart of Senior Management Teams.

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