Book description
How any manager can turn a struggling team into business champs
In today's uncertain economic environment, teams are asked to do more with less. With resources stretched thin, turning around a struggling team has never been harder, and managers must work to identify and maximize whatever potential strengths a team already has. As sports fans already know, behind every great underdog story is a leader who roots out the competitive advantage that will propel the team to victory. In Team Turnarounds, Joe Frontiera and Dan Leidl share how this fine art of the turnaround really works, from how to inspire the team to the actual tools for change.
Through interviews with team managers and turnaround masters in the NFL, MLB, and the NCAA, as well as managers at top global firms who have successfully reversed their fortunes, they show the six steps every team takes to make a 180 in their performance.
Presents a six-step model for turnarounds in any organization, based on the authors' extensive research with owners and general managers of sport franchises in the MLB, NFL, and NBA
Features first-hand accounts of sport turnarounds, from the legendary worst-to-first story of Bill Polian and the Indianapolis Colts to Jeffrey Lurie's efforts to transform the Philadelphia Eagles
Offers behind-the-scenes accounts of effective turnarounds at major organizations like Dominos Pizza, Juniper Networks, iContact, and the Broadway play, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
No matter how bad the circumstances, how awful the performance, or how far shares have plummeted, Team Turnarounds shows how any organization can make the climb back up to the top.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Foreword: Adversity Introduces Us to Ourselves
- Introduction
- 1 Stage I: Leading Past Losing
- 2 Stage II: Committing to Growth
- 3 Stage III: Changing Behaviors
- 4 Stage IV: Embracing Adversity
- 5 Stage V: Achieving Success
- 6 Stage VI: Nurturing a Culture of Excellence
- 7 The Team Turnaround Workbook
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- Index
Product information
- Title: Team Turnarounds: A Playbook for Transforming Underperforming Teams
- Author(s):
- Release date: July 2012
- Publisher(s): Jossey-Bass
- ISBN: 9781118144787
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