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Creating Teams with an Edge

The Complete Skill Set to Build Powerful and Influential Teams

by Harvard Business Essentials

Harvard Business Press, 2004

Category: Leadership & Management

Creating Teams with an Edge

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In this summary you will learn

  • How to decide if a project needs a team
  • Why a launch meeting is important
  • Why the team leader should never try to be the boss
  • How to develop a work process that will drive the team forward

Why you should read Creating Teams with an Edge

This helpful guide from the Harvard Business Essentials Series will put you on the right track, whether you have just been assigned to a team or are considering forming a team to tackle a project. The writing is clear and concise, the advice is solid and the business principles are spot on. If you seek a guide about how to put a team together, get a project underway and manage it to fruition, you would be hard pressed to find better fundamental information in so few pages. getAbstract recommends this book to all aspiring team leaders, team members and managers.

About the author

The Harvard Business Essentials series, which began in 2002, provides advice, coaching, information and guidance on business topics. Drawing on content from Harvard Business School Publishing and other sources, these guides provide a practical resource for readers in a variety of fields. To assure quality, a specialized content adviser closely reviews each volume.

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