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Best Practices: Managing People
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Best Practices: Managing People

by Barry Silverstein
October 2009
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
160 pages
1h 57m
English
HarperCollins Publishers
Content preview from Best Practices: Managing People

Essential Skill II Managing Teams

“Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.”

—Andrew Carnegie, philanthropist and founder of Carnegie Steel Company (1835–1919)

Why work in teams? To put it simply, you’ll accomplish more—and do it more efficiently. The modern workplace is leaner, and managers are expected to do more with less. The properly managed team can produce more work of better quality, faster, than individuals working alone.

 

A team doesn’t exist to give its members the pleasure of teamwork. Whether the team is a work group team, a sales team, or a service ...

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