Virtual Teams
Howard Guttman on Building High-Performance Teams
How a powerful new high-performance organizational model has changed the way leaders lead, team members function, decisions get made, and challenges are met.
August 29, 2008 / Podcast # 08-35
Standout performance is what it takes to be a top business team. In Great Business Teams, Howard Guttman examines the inner workings of over 30 business teams, at top-management, business-unit, and functional levels, to offer a radically new vision of the emerging horizontal organization and of the high-performing teams that are the cornerstone of its success. Read more…
Barry Libert on How “We” Are Smarter Than “Me”
How can businesses profit from the wisdom of crowds?
March 7, 2008 / Podcast # 08-10
Online Social Networking is a reality. The millions of people who have a Facebook or MySpace page, or anyone who uses Wikipedia or Google, knows this. But for today’s companies, the question remains, how can we profit from the crowds who are swarming all over the internet?
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Rafiq Dossani on India’s Rise to the Top of Global Business
Few Americans truly understand what a rich and powerful country India has become – or its role as a global power, center of outsourcing, and potential partner with the United States.
November 2, 2007 / Podcast # 07-29
Rafiq Dossani discusses India’s growing role in the global economy in his new book India Arriving (AMACOM Books). India has the world’s fourth largest economy, the largest youth population, and the current ranking of the second-most-preferred destination for foreign investment, yet its importance to the worldwide market seems to be swept under the rug. Rafiq’s book provides a deeper understanding of a country that promises to be the next major player in the world economy.
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Lynda McDermott on Leading World Class Teams
How do team leaders break through various barriers (i.e. different cultures, companies, countries) among their team members?
September 21, 2007 / Podcast # 07-23
In her book World Class Teams, Lynda McDermott provides a hands-on guide on how to develop, launch, lead, and evaluate world class teams. With her coauthors William Waite and Nolan Brawley, Lynda draws heavily from their experience with such international firms as Pfizer, Colgate, AT&T, and Motorola to give managers, executive training organizations, team leaders, and HR and OD specialists. Read more…
Kevan Hall on Speed Management
Is there such a thing as too much teamwork?
May 11, 2007 / Podcast # 07-04
Kevan Hall founded Global IntegrationTM in 1994, to develop “the skills of working internationally” for the world’s leading companies. He realized that the tools he and his colleagues developed for complex international, virtual, remote and matrixed organizations were based on creating underlying speed and simplicity and were applicable to almost any complex company. Read more…