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

Bob Frisch

Narrator Melissa Reizian Frank

Publisher: Ascent Audio

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Summary

The inability to make decisions. Competition for resources.  Friction among team members. These problems are endemic in  organizations of all sizes, in all industries, across all  continents. Leaders usually assume that if their teams can just  communicate better, or trust each other more, or overcome some  other set of individual or collective dysfunctions, these problems  can be resolved.  And so they call in the psychologists, the  coaches, and organization development consultants.  But the  problems dont go away.    In fact, the problems often arent psychological or  behavioral at all.  Rather, theyre caused by a failure  to understand how managerial team building and decision-making  actually work.  Through research and interviews with CEOs and  top executives at major companies like MasterCard, DuPont and  Morgan Stanley, the authors found that many leaders see themselves  as leading not from the top of an organizational pyramid but from  the center of several concentric rings of teams, both formal and  informal, that surround them. This book shows how executives in  organizations of any size can better configure, manage, and  maximize their leverage of the formal and informal teams around  them. Leaders will learn:       The best executives surround themselves with a portfolio  of teams, not a single team consisting of their direct reports.  These portfolios consist of a mix of formal teams and ad-hoc  kitchen cabinets of close advisors.    Ad-hoc teams often provide more value to leaders than their  formal teams.   The Senior Management Team, often viewed as the top executive  body of an organization, is often the most dysfunctional team of  all - and how it can be fixed.  The most effective CEOs surround themselves with four types of  teams, each with specific functions that they are uniquely suited  to fill.  Providing clarity around roles and decision-making can be a  more effective key to team success than putting more effort into  team building.    This book enables leaders and members of their teams to clarify  roles and maximize strategic capability, generating faster, better  decisions and a higher level of organizational alignment for  improved results.
Duration: about 5 hours (05:19:15)
Publishing date: 2020-07-20; Unabridged; Copyright Year: 2020. Copyright Statment: —