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The orange revolution : how one great team can transform an entire organization / Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton.

By: Gostick, Adrian Robert.
Contributor(s): Elton, Chester.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Free Press, 2010Edition: 1st free press hardcover ed.Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.Description: vii, 271 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9781439182451.Subject(s): Teams in the workplace | Incentive awards -- United States | Employee motivation -- United StatesDDC classification: 658.4/022 Online resources: Contributor biographical information: | Publisher description:
Contents:
Breakthrough teams -- The common cause -- Competence : back to the basics (+ recognition) -- The rule of 3 : cultivating a team -- Wow : six secret ingredients to world-class results -- No surprises : mastering orange communication -- Cheer : up -- 101 ways to bring your team together -- The company is a team : creating a revolutionary corporate culture -- An orange life : a how-to guide for living -- The orange formation.
Summary: The authors shows that breakthrough success is guided by a particular breed of high-performing team that generates its own momentum, an engaged group of colleagues in the trenches, working passionately together to pursue a shared vision. They have determined a key set of characteristics displayed by members of breakthrough teams, and have identified a set of rules great teams live by, which generate a culture of positive teamwork and lead to extraordinary results. Using a wealth of specific stories from the breakthrough teams they studied, they reveal in detail how these teams operate and how managers can transform their own teams into such high performers.--[book jacket]
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Breakthrough teams -- The common cause -- Competence : back to the basics (+ recognition) -- The rule of 3 : cultivating a team -- Wow : six secret ingredients to world-class results -- No surprises : mastering orange communication -- Cheer : up -- 101 ways to bring your team together -- The company is a team : creating a revolutionary corporate culture -- An orange life : a how-to guide for living -- The orange formation.

The authors shows that breakthrough success is guided by a particular breed of high-performing team that generates its own momentum, an engaged group of colleagues in the trenches, working passionately together to pursue a shared vision. They have determined a key set of characteristics displayed by members of breakthrough teams, and have identified a set of rules great teams live by, which generate a culture of positive teamwork and lead to extraordinary results. Using a wealth of specific stories from the breakthrough teams they studied, they reveal in detail how these teams operate and how managers can transform their own teams into such high performers.--[book jacket]

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