From the Inside Flap
In the 1970s, Bill Dyer created a revolutionary approach to team building that has been fundamental to businesses looking to improve teamwork. Now, with Beyond Team Building, that classic model receives a much-anticipated update for the contemporary business environment. In this book, Gibb Dyer and Jeff Dyer distill their five-dimensional model of team building into a powerhouse guide to assessing, diagnosing, and improving teams across organizations of all types.
Beyond Team Building is for anyone who understands that teamwork must be built into the core of any enterprise if that enterprise is to succeed. Many approaches to team building focus on fixing broken teams by bringing them up to par. Readers of this book will be empowered to far exceed that modest goal, because the "5 C" model of team building emphasizes pushing teams to new heights and creating a "team building organization." Assessing existing problems and identifying solutions is just the first step. Infusing teamwork into the very core of a business (or family, or any other type of team environment) is what this time-tested approach is all about.
A notable update to Bill Dyer's classic theory is the addition of a focus on collaborative leadership, emphasizing the role of the team leader. Only today are we beginning to fully understand the importance of collaboration in organizations, and Beyond Team Building is leading the way with action steps in this crucial area. Team leaders often do not receive adequate training for leadership, and this book fills this gap by outlining the characteristics of effective team leaders--and addressing what can be done when team leaders are not living up to their potential regarding this crucial role. The book includes insights from interviews with transformative leaders like Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, PepsiCo Chairman Indra Nooyi and Nike CEO Mark Parker.
Professionals will appreciate the practical orientation in this concise and focused guide. Self-assessment surveys, intervention plans, and real-world examples will enable leaders and team members alike to dive right into intensive team building, without getting bogged down in theory. The authors even address specialized scenarios, from temporary teams and virtual teams to teamwork within the family. Comprehensive yet succinct, this book is a valuable resource for anyone looking to make their team--or teams more effective.
W. GIBB DYER, Jr., (PhD, MIT) is the O. Leslie Stone Professor of Entrepreneurship and Management in the Marriott School of Business at Brigham Young University. He has been a visiting faculty member at the University of New Hampshire and IESE in Barcelona, Spain and has been a visiting scholar at the University of Bath in the U.K. He has published nine books and over 50 articles and his research has been featured in publications such as Fortune, The Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. He has been ranked as one of the top ten scholars in the world in the field of family business. His consulting practice focuses on team building, organization development and management succession.
JEFFREY H. DYER (PhD, UCLA) is the Horace Beesley Distinguished Professor of Strategy at BYU and the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He worked previously as a management consultant at Bain & Company and cofounded the Innovator's DNA consultancy. He is the author of two bestsellers, The Innovator's DNA and The Innovator's Method. Among those receiving PhDs after 1990 he was ranked #1 Most Influential Scholar with over 39,000 citations and over 500,000 Google searches to his name. As a speaker and consultant he has worked with prominent organizations like Adobe, AT&T, Intel, J&J, Microsoft and GSK.
