Summary

The Truth About Teams

"If you′re considering self--managing teams for your own business, Business Without Bosses should be on your reading list."
Managing Office Technology

"Anyone who wants to become or stay a manager needs to master this book′s practical and philosophical lessons."
Allan R. Cohen Vice President, Academic Affairs, Babson College and author, The Portable MBA in Management and Influence without Authority

"The ′real--world′ case studies will appeal to executives who need answers, not theory, about self--managed teams."
William Band Vice President, Rath && Strong, Inc., management consultants and the author of Creating Value for Customers and Touchstones

This insider′s tour shows you how organizations including Texas Instruments, IDS Financial Services, and W. L. Gore && Associates have discarded the old concept of "boss" and flourished with a new and effective team management style. Charles C. Manz, Ph.D. and Henry P. Sims, Jr., Ph.D., the authors of SuperLeadership , use real--world examples of success and failure to guide you through the intricacies of teamwork in a variety of service and manufacturing settings and in all stages of development.

Booklist Review

The utilization of teams to help manage organizations is nothing new. "Team building" and "problem-solving teams" have long been management literature topics. But the idea of using teams to replace management is new--a bold approach to some, a threatening challenge to others. Manz and Sims have been studying teams and leadership for more than a dozen years and wrote SuperLeadership: Leading Others to Lead Themselves (1989), which lays the groundwork for the successful implementation of self-managing teams. Here they move beyond theoretical considerations to detail actual successes and failures of the team concept at seven major manufacturing and service companies. ~--David Rouse