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Hot Groups : Seeding Them, Feeding Them, and Using Them to Ignite Your Organization

Jean Lipman-Blumen, Harold J. Leavitt

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Many corporations, in their attempt to create innovative products and services, have focused on the concept of building teams. While many groups fizzle, on rare occasions the members of a group will experience an extraordinary eruption of excitement, transcending an organization's rigid confines to achieve astonishing results. These individuals, say Jean Lipman-Blumen and Harold J. Leavitt, are lucky enough to be members of a "hot group," a phenomenon they lucidly and enthusiastically describe in their ground-breaking new book Hot Groups.
A hot group is not a name for a newfangled team, task force, or committee. Rather, a hot group is defined by a distinctive state of mind coupled with a style of behavior that is intense and sharply focused on its ultimate goal. Stretching themselves beyond their own expectations, members of a hot group plunge into enterprises that have the potential to change, even ennoble, their own and others' lives.
Neither trendy fabrication nor new management fad, hot groups have existed since the dawn of civilization, perhaps invigorating groups of cavemen to hunt together furiously for food before winter's approach. Today, examples of hot groups abound in territories such as Silicon Valley, where impassioned people have blazed paths through the burgeoning computer industry. Consider the hot group that created the original Macintosh and revolutionized the personal computer market. John Sculley, who joined Apple in the early 1980s, described a "magnetic field" that surrounded the Macintosh hot group members, and Bill Gates, Microsoft's mastermind, reported that a hot programming group to which he once belonged "didn't obey a 24-hour clock." Instead, they programmed for days at a time, pausing only to eat and talk about software with fellow programmers. Here also are examples of hot groups at work in other industries: the individuals that created the blockbuster TV drama "Hill Street Blues"; the Navy and civilian personnel that transformed a standard cruiser into a guided missile cruiser in less than 12 months; and even the ad hoc crisis management group advising President John F. Kennedy during the Cuban Missile crisis. Indeed, the inspiring case studies found throughout Hot Groups illustrate that well-nourished hot groups can profoundly transform any type of organization.
Still, Lipman-Blumen and Leavitt recognize the risks inherent in loosening an organization's structural soil enough to accommodate these groups. Consequently, they address such issues as how to provide the kind of leadership required by a hot group, how to mesh a hot group with the regimented structure of the overall corporation, how managers can encourage new hot groups, and how best to cope with an overheated hot group.
Drawing on decades of research and experience with groups and organizations throughout the world, Lipman-Blumen and Leavitt have written an intensely engaging book about a phenomenon that will become increasingly important in our rapidly changing world. Expertly carving a path through this unmapped terrain, they lucidly demonstrate how managers and executives can ignite hot group sparks in their own organizations.

Swarm Creativity: Competitive Advantage through Collaborative Innovation Networks

Peter A. Gloor

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Swarm Creativity introduces a powerful new concept-Collaborative Innovation Networks, or COINs. Its aim is to make the concept of COINs as ubiquitous among business managers as any methodology to enhance quality and competitive advantage. The difference though is that COINs are nothing like other methodologies. A COIN is a cyberteam of self-motivated people with a collective vision, enabled by technology to collaborate in achieving a common goal--n innovation-by sharing ideas, information, and work. It is no exaggeration to state that COINs are the most productive engines of innovation ever. COINs have been around for hundreds of years. Many of us have already been a part of one without knowing it. What makes COINs so relevant today, though is that the concept has reached its tipping point-thanks to the Internet and the World Wide Web. This book explores why COINS are so important to business success in the new century. It explains the traits that characterize COIN members and COIN behavior. It makes the case for why businesses ought to be rushing to uncover their COINs and nurture them, and provides tools for building organizations that are more creative, productive and efficient by applying principles of creative collaboration, knowledge sharing and social networking. Through real-life examples in several business sectors, the book shows how to leverage COINs to develop successful products in R & D, grow better customer relationships, establish better project management, and build higher-performing teams. In short, this book answers four key questions: Why are COINs better at innovation? What are the key elements of COINs? Who are the people that participate in COINs and how do they become members? And how does an organization transform itself into a Collaborative Innovation Network?

The One Minute Manager Builds High Performing Teams: New and Revised Edition

Ken Blanchard, Eunice Parisi-Carew, Donald Carew

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Business Without Boundaries: An Action Framework for Collaborating Across Time, Distance, Organization, and Culture (Jossey Bass Business and Management Series)

Don Mankin, Susan G. Cohen

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Traditional forms of collaboration are not sufficient for competing effectively in the more complex and dynamic environment of today’s business world. Face-to-face meetings between people of similar backgrounds have given way to increasingly complex working relationships. Organizations must be able to gain rapid access to knowledgeable people to meet constantly changing conditions and demands. More fluid, flexible, and easily reconfigurable collaborative relationships are necessary to produce the innovations that can make or break organizations¾even entire industries¾ and provide the opportunities that attract the talented and motivated employees who will make the difference between success and failure.

Business Without Boundaries helps managers address these challenges. The authors explore a number of wide-ranging, real-world cases to identify hands-on principles for successful collaboration. They offer managers and executives practical steps and tools for creating, facilitating, and supporting complex collaborations throughout their organizations. And they explain how to “team” across boundaries in the new global economy. The recommendations are specific enough to apply to particular forms of complex collaboration (for example supply chains, global product development teams, interorganizational alliances) but general enough to apply to new forms that have yet to emerge.

TPS-Lean Six Sigma: Linking Human Capital to Lean Six Sigma - A New Blueprint for Creating High Performance Companies (PB)

Hubert, K Rampersad, Anwar El-Homsi

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Praise for TPS-Lean Six Sigma from Business Leaders in the US and abroad 5 out of 5 stars.
6 of 6 people found this review helpful.

"Hubert Rampersad and Anwar El-Homsi continue their superb integration of business, project, and personal life in their new book. Their disciplined, logical, and scorecard approach to melding business and personal lives will be a major benefit to companies, leaders, and employees. The new book is full of examples, tools, and exercises that will help individuals discover and align their personal vision and mission to the company where they work. This book links the lean six sigma profession with human capital in a fully integrated and through way".--Dave Ulrich, Professor of Business, University of Michigan, and Partner, The RBL Group. He was ranked as #1 management educator and guru by Business Week, #2 among management thinkers by Executive Excellence, and listed by Forbes as one of the "world's top five" business coaches.

"TPS-Lean Six Sigma puts heart in the (Lean) Six Sigma process. It's designed for human beings and integrates both process and people to achieve maximum results." --- Marshall Goldsmith is a world renowned executive coach and the author of the New York Times best seller What Got You Here Won't Get You There. He is recognized by the American Management Association as one of 50 great thinkers and leaders who have impacted the field of management over the past 80 years.

"This book packs a big punch. Any company interested in improving their quality processes fast needs to incorporate its message." - - Paul Bracken, Professor of Management, Yale School of Management.

"Hubert Rampersad and Anwar El-Homsi combine the power of Lean Six Sigma with an approach that stresses the importance and need of developing an organizational structure and philosophy that combines the goals of and aspirations of the individual with those of the company......During my 38 years of business experience, I've seen many well developed management concepts being applied without success and that have failed to recognize the importance of aligning the needs and aspirations of employees with those of company objectives. The TPS-Lean Six Sigma concept offers a systematic process of continuous improvement and development of personal and organizational performance with potential for breakthrough results". --- Ricardo A. Gonzalez, Director Worldwide Purchasing, Eastman Kodak Company, USA.

"Successful implementation of Lean Six Sigma relies on people up and down the organization working together to achieve quality. Despite best intentions, the importance of the human element in the overall implementation scheme can be overshadowed by a focus on the tools. Hubert Rampersad and Anwar El-Homsi have written the most important book yet on creating a culture of Lean Six Sigma. It clearly spells out how to address the issues and challenges associated with implementing a comprehensive and effective Lean Six Sigma program". --- Stephen Haight, Vice President Global Quality, Bausch & Lomb, USA

"The major difference between two companies in the same industry lies not with the machines they use, not with their locations, not with their advertising campaigns, and not with their buildings, but rather with the people who work there--their skills, their talents, the processes they carry out, and especially with the motivation they bring to the job. TPS - Lean Six Sigma provides a guidepost for executives to craft an organization that both celebrates individual differences while molding disparate individuals into an efficient team executing the right processes smartly. It was once said of a great sports coach (Bum Phillips) that "he could take 'hissen' and beat 'youren' or he could take 'youren' and beat 'hissen'." TPS - Lean Six Sigma will teach you how to do that: how to build upon widely ranging individual strengths so as to combine them into a set of efficient and effective performers who deliver value with no waste and target precisely what customers desire." -- Professor Francis D.Tuggle, Ph. D., Argyros School of Business and Economics, Chapman University, California

"Aligning personal goals with organizational goals in the deployment of Lean Six Sigma is brilliant! This book will help many organizations whose deployment of Lean Six Sigma was not as they had anticipated and will make the journey much more rewarding for those just starting." -- Reginald Stewart, Quality Officer and Six Sigma Master Black Belt, University of Rochester, Strong Memorial Hospital, USA

"TPS-Lean Six Sigma is a wonderful, thought provoking concept that we will incorporate into all of our quality training. Lean Six Sigma has helped many of our customers improve their product or service. It is my hope that with TPS-Lean Six Sigma, we can now begin to address how these quality tools affect the most important part of any organization, its people."--Charles J. Caples, Program Director Workforce Development, Monroe Community College, USA

"The TPS - Lean Six Sigma book is a synergetic approach and business perspective for leading companies; a major contribution in the cohesive development of organizations. By aligning and combining human and organizational interests Hubert Rampersad and Anwar El-Homsi created a thorough concept for successful improvement of organizational and human behaviour. Enjoy the richness of the content and you will understand that implementing TPS-LSS generates self propelling engagement and related results." -- Ad Rutten, Executive Vice President & COO, Schiphol Group, Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, the Netherlands.

"TPS - Lean Six Sigma is an excellent book on a topic that is so important in today's business climate. It describes in a very pragmatic and structured way how to improve company performance and personal satisfaction of employees by aligning company- and personal objectives. Optimizing business processes and enhancing personal engagement does not only result in an enhanced performance but also addresses sustainability of realized improvements over time. A highly readable and useful book". -- Paul Stuyvenberg Vice President Corporate Quality Management, ASML, the Netherlands.

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This new book emphasizes the introduction of a new blueprint, called TPS-Lean Six Sigma, for addressing the primary concerns of manufacturing and service in a more sustainable and humanized way. It leads to a High Performance Culture and allows employees to realize their full potential and contribute creatively while the organization benefits from increased profitability, market share, and customer satisfaction. By way of this book, Hubert Rampersad & Anwar El-Homsi are launching a revolutionary, holistic concept which actively has human capital embedded in Lean Six Sigma in a manner that not only stimulates commitment, integrity, work-life balance, passion, enjoyment at work and employee engagement but also stimulates individual and team learning in order to develop a motivated workforce and sustainable performance improvement and quality enhancement for the organization.

Quality Management for Projects and Programs

Lewis R. Ireland

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High-level, but covers the important points 5 out of 5 stars.
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If you're seeking a solid introduction to basic quality techniques and how to apply them to project management this book will meet your needs. It starts off with a macro view of quality, starting with why quality is important and how it meets both project and business objectives within the context of competitive advantage.

There is nothing new in this book. It's the way that the critical success factors for integrating quality into projects are presented that makes it valuable. For example, the chapter on customer requirements is common sense, but the issues and challenges are exposed in the next chapter on planning for quality projects. In that chapter the elements and dimensions of a project and stakeholder requirements are dissected, which then adds insights into the previous chapter. This material is then taken to a new level in the chapter on cost of quality, which explores the cost to achieve quality, and the costs of not having quality - these are the foundation for building a business case for taking a quality-focused approach in the project. They will also provide ammunition to rebut management when they want to take short cuts as the project evolves (especially product development projects) by quantifying the ramifications of their decisions.

One chapter that I especially like is V, Statistical Concepts and Quality Tools. Not only does this chapter introduce tools and techniques that can be applied to project management, but it also introduces statistical process controls. While statistical process controls are overkill for many projects, they can serve as a dashboard at the program management office level for tracking cost and performance indices, requirements churn and other key indicators across a portfolio of projects.

Overall, this book is brief and only touches upon many of the factors for incorporating quality into project management. However, it is sufficiently detailed to teach the concepts and the value, and will point you in the right direction.

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With a focus on doing the right thing right the first time, Ireland has constructed a solid presentation on how to invest in quality throughout all the project management processes. Understanding customers’ requirements and the essential nature of planning to meet quality expectations is explored thoroughly, along with a solid discussion of the choices of resources. Other topics include human factors and the effects of internal and external demands, as well as the tools, management techniques, methodologies, and costs associated with infusing quality into project management.

The book is essential reading to learn more about one of the knowledge areas of the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®).

Building Effective Teams (Leading from the Center)

Duke Corporate Education

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Discover why team management skills are a hot commodity today—and make yours the best!Managers today face a new environment, where teams must form and produce results quickly, where members are separated by greater distances, and where the boundaries of membership and accountability are blurred. They also find themselves leading new types of teams—cross-functional, ad-hoc, peer, global—where issues of identity, authority, strategic alignment, culture, and coordination further complicate their work.As a manager, your ability to help your teams rapidly become effective is a strategic must for your organization. In fact, your career advancement might very well depend on how well you can build and manage a collaborative force. Leading from the Center: Building Effective Teams provides a concise, expert primer that will help you update your skills quickly.Based on the research and teachings of the Duke Corporate Education faculty, this guide incorporates the latest best practices to show you how to:

•Assemble a team whose members come from different departments, different locations, or different cultures and countries.

•Ensure your team’s work is aligned with your organization’s larger strategy.

•Develop clear goals and priorities for team members.

•Assess and discuss how the team is performing against its key challenges and responsibilities.

•Ensure that internal team dynamics are facilitating rather than hindering their efforts.

•Collaborate across boundaries—both functional and organizational.

 

Plentiful real-life case examples and checklists illustrate the practical steps you can take to build and motivate a team to achieve its best.

Building Effective Teams is one of the first books in the dynamic new Leading from the Center series from Dearborn Trade Publishing and Duke Corporate Education. Other books in the series include Influencing and Collaborating for Results and Translating Strategy into Action.

How To Lead Work Teams: Facilitation Skills, 2nd Edition

Fran Rees

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Completely revised and updated!

Develop the skills that are key for becoming a successful team leader! Now in its second edition, How to Lead Work Teams shows you step by step, how to develop the powerful facilitaion skills that will help make you an outstanding leader, coach, motivator and facilitator. Includes great tools and techniques to help you put these skills into action today!

Using Rees's innovative L.E.A.D. model you can become a team leader who:
* Leads with a clear purpose. Articulate your team's goals and purpose and encourage open and thoughtful discussion (including disagreement), brainstorming, and active listening.
* Empowers to participate. Encourage team members to communicate in ways that enhance teamwork and achieve results.
* Aims for consensus. Reach consensus by taking the time for questioning, listening, clarifying, augmenting, summarizing, and documenting.
* Directs the process. Lead the process of communication both inside and outside your team.

"The new edition hits the nail on the head. Every employee who works as a member of a team needs to learn facilitation skills. How to Lead Work Teams explains and describes skills and practical techniques in a very readable way."
--Judith C. Tingley, president, Performance Improvement Pros, Inc.

Ron Archer On Teams

Ron Archer

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This is not your average Flavor-of-the-Month "how-to" book 5 out of 5 stars.
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Ron Archer is a true believer, and it shows. For all the hucksters peddling their own versions of convivial redemption in the workplace, occasionally the real McCoy comes along.

Mr. Archer lays out the challenges awaiting team-directed managers with evangelistic fervor and delphic clarity. It's the next best thing to sitting around the author's den.

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Teams have been hailed as the workplace revolution of the decade. But what happens when the team's ``honeymoon'' ends? When troubles arise and interest wanes? Never fear, says teamwork troubleshooter and motivational speaker Ron Archer. In this book, Archer compiles the team remedies he has prescribed to the City of Coral Springs (Florida), Hillside Rehabilitation Hospitals, CHI Heist Corporation, and NFL football players to lead their faltering teams to success. On Teams features: several quick, easy-to-digest guidelines for improving teams, including the six-step empowerment initiative, the three phases of team implementation, and more; ways to successfully coach not manage a team to its highest potential; expert advice on avoiding team failure.

The Power of a Good Fight

Lynne Eisaguirre

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If I Had Known Then What Lynne Eisaguirre Tells Me Now . . . 5 out of 5 stars.
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If I had known years ago what Lynne Eisaguirre writes about the various conflict styles in her book, The Power Of A Good Fight, my career and life would have moved along a less rocky road. I now understand that one partner I worked for had a 'roadrunner' approach to conflict resolution; the other a 'pitbull' approach. Although I realize possessing this information would not have changed the way my bosses approached conflict resolution, I'm certain what would have changed, was my approach to them and their conflicts. The Power Of A Good Fight offers valuable knowledge and skills about effectively dealing with different approaches to conflict resolution. This would have improved my career and life had I known then what Lynne tells me now in The Power Of A Good Fight.

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The Power of a Good Fight provides techniques and examples to show executives how to create strong teamsand leaderswho use confrontation in a positive way to foster team strength, creativity, and productivity. Skillfully using confrontation can make an executiveand an entire organizationmore successful. Lynne Eisaguirre is an attorney and former senior executive, and through her company, Work Places That Work, coaches senior executives on using conflict proactively and creatively to enhance their company.