Draws on science, spiritual values, psychology, the cutting edge of management thought with leading companies which employ Fifth Discipline methods. This edition contains more than 100 pages of material about how companies are actually using and benefiting from Fifth Discipline practices.

This title provides a summary of current scholarship in the areas of market strategy, leadership roles and executives in teams. It emphasises how to align your team with your strategy, how to build up skills of team leaders and how to enhance the effectiveness of executive teams.

Providing a companion to The Essence of Managing People which introduced the manager/student to the skills needed to manage the individual, this text continues the story to show the manager/student how to apply these principles in the context of the management of the overall group.

Offers practitioners a resource for dealing with the challenges of designing and implementing collaborative work systems. Filled with examples and tools, this book is written for change leaders, OD managers, design team members, line managers, and functional leaders who need a hands-on resource for dealing with collaborative work systems issues.

Shows you the tools, tricks and tips you need to fix the problems you face on a software development project on an on-going basis. This work also shows how to architect retrospectives in general, how to design them specifically for your team and organization, how to run them effectively, and how to make the needed changes.

Brings together thinkers from leading business schools to give readers a resource equivalent to an MBA in management. This book includes topics such as: visionary leadership, building high performance teams, managing individual behavior, and managing human resources, among others.

Provides a framework designed to help readers understand the potential and the means of achieving a collaborative organization that reaps the harvest of long-term investment in teams.

Written in the manner of a parable, this title also aims to be an inspirational guide that explores the benefits of working together in a team. It follows the experiences of Alan, who is fired for having a lone-wolf mentality.