The One Minute Manager Builds High Performing Teams
by Kenneth Blanchard, Donald Carew and Eunice Parisi-Carew
The stages of team development (orientation, dissatisfaction, integration, production) and how a leader's style must change at each. PERFORM characteristics of high-performing teams. Short and useful.
Read it if…
you lead a new team and want to know what is coming.
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Skip it if…
you want deep team theory; see Lencioni or Hackman.
Try instead: Who Killed Change? →
Three things you will actually use
- Teams go through predictable stages.
- Dissatisfaction is normal; lead through it.
- Change your style as the team matures.
Do this first
Identify your team's stage and adjust your style.
Our verdict
Team stages.
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