Audiobooks by Jon R. Katzenbach

"Most teams underperform. Yours can beat the odds. If you read (or listen) to nothing else on building better teams, listen to these ten articles. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you assemble and steer teams that get results. Leading experts such as Jon Katzenbach, Teresa Amabile, and Tamara Erickson provide the insights and advice you need to: boost team performance through mutual accountability; motivate large, diverse groups to tackle complex projects; increase your teams' emotional intelligence; prevent decision deadlock; extract results from a bunch of touchy superstars; and fight constructively with top-management colleagues."

Harvard Business Review, Jon R. Katzenbach, Kathleen M. Eisenhardt, Lynda Gratton (Author), Gregory St. John, Susan Larkin (Narrator)

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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing People (with featured article 'Leadership That Gets Results,' by Dan

"Managing people is fraught with challenges—even if you're a seasoned manager. Here's how to handle them. If you read (or listen to) nothing else on managing people, listen to these ten articles (featuring 'Leadership That Gets Results,' by Daniel Goleman). We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you maximize your employees' performance. HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing People will inspire you to: tailor your management styles to fit your people; motivate with more responsibility, not more money; support first-time managers; build trust by soliciting input; teach smart people how to learn from failure; build high-performing teams; and manage your boss. This collection of bestselling articles includes: featured article 'Leadership That Gets Results' by Daniel Goleman, 'One More Time: How Do You Motivate Employees?,' 'The Set-Up-to-Fail Syndrome,' 'Saving Your Rookie Managers from Themselves,' 'What Great Managers Do,' 'Fair Process: Managing in the Knowledge Economy,' 'Teaching Smart People How to Learn,' 'How (Un)ethical Are You?,' 'The Discipline of Teams,' and 'Managing Your Boss.'"

Daniel Goleman, Harvard Business Review, Jon R. Katzenbach, Renée Mauborgne, W. Chan Kim (Author), Mark Cabus, Susan Larkin (Narrator)

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Leading Outside the Lines: How to Mobilize the (In)formal Organization, Energize Your Team, and Get

"An all-new approach to understanding and inspiring the (in)formal connections of an organization In this dynamic work, thought leaders Jon R. Katzenbach, coauthor of the business classic The Wisdom of Teams, and Zia Khan offer an all-new examination of the modern workplace, and how leaders and managers must embrace it for success. Together they reveal how two distinct factions form the bigger picture for how organizations actually work: the more defined and visible “formal organization” of a company—the management structure, performance metrics, and formal strategy—and the “informal organization”—the culture, social networks, and ad hoc communities that spring up naturally and, in an equally vital but different way, can accelerate or hinder an organization’s success. Through compelling case studies from enterprises around the world (in business, government, the nonprofit sector, and academia) Katzenbach and Khan explore how top-level organizations balance the informal and formal elements of organizations to achieve outstanding results. Leading Outside the Lines takes a timeless organizational approach and creates a powerful paradigm-shifting tool set for applying it, showing when you can get the most done by using the informal elements that operate under the radar, and when it is in fact better to use formal processes. Most important, it illustrates how the two can work together to get the best of both. This groundbreaking book also offers self-assessment guidelines for senior leaders, front-line managers, and individual contributors who need to get better performance results. Insightful leaders and managers at all levels know that to really lead an organization, you cannot rely on formal constructs alone; you have to use the informal elements as well. Using the information and tools outlined in this compelling book, leaders and potential leaders at all levels can tap into the power of the informal to achieve superlative performance and results."

Jon R. Katzenbach, Zia Khan (Author), Ken Kliban (Narrator)

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The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization

"The Wisdom of Teams is the definitive work on how to create high-performance teams in any organization. Having sold nearly a half million copies and been translated into more than fifteen languages, the authors' clarion call that teams should be the basic unit of organization for most businesses has permanently shaped the way companies reach the highest levels of performance. Using engaging case studies and testimonials from both successful and failed teams—ranging from Fortune 500 companies to the U.S. Army to high school sports—the authors explain the dynamics of teams both in great detail and with a broad view. Their conclusions and prescriptions span the familiar to the counterintuitive: Commitment to performance goals and common purpose is more important to team success than team building; Opportunities for teams exist in all parts of the organization; Real teams are the most successful spearheads of change at all levels; Working in teams naturally integrates performance and learning; Team 'endings' can be as important to manage as team 'beginnings.' Wisdom lies in recognizing a team's unique potential to deliver results and in understanding its many benefits—development of individual members, team accomplishments, and stronger companywide performance. Katzenbach and Smith's comprehensive classic is the essential guide to unlocking the potential of teams in your organization."

Douglas K. Smith, Jon R. Katzenbach (Author), Jordan Harrold (Narrator)

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