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Business Without Bosses

Name: Business Without Bosses
Author: Charles C. Manz,Henry P. Sims
ISBN: 9780471577003

by Charles C. Manz, Henry P. Sims

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Overview

At first glance, the idea of "business without bosses" seems to contradict many of the bedrock ideas we have about management and leadership. Your first reaction may be "Impossible...it'll never work!" Or: "Terrific...I hope my boss is the first to go." What this book is about, however, is not anarchy but one of the most important developments to hit business in recent years: self-managing teams. Self-managing teams provide the way for companies to increase productivity and quality and are an important answer to the competitiveness challenge. And Business Without Bosses provides new insights and information on how to reach these goals:. It's a second-generation book about teams. The first generation told us that self-managing teams were a good idea but provided little information about how to make them work. Business Without Bosses has its focus on implementation and provides an inside view of teams at various stages of development. Business Without Bosses provides an in-depth perspective. Each of the core chapters is devoted to the self-managing team at one organization. You'll get a realistic look at the opportunities, problems, and challenges of implementing and sustaining a self-managing team system. Examples include both manufacturing and service companies as well as how teams can work in the executive suite. A new leadership perspective shows that the idea of the all-powerful boss has gone the way of the dinosaur. Business Without Bosses points the way to a new form of leadership and shows that leaders, not bosses, enable teams to manage themselves to achieve productivity and quality. More and more self-managing teams are the secret weapon behind high-performing companies. And in Business Without Bosses you'll discover why.

A guide to understanding and implementing the essential building block for success in business: self-managing teams. This follow-up to Superleadership tells readers how to develop leadership skills to manage themselves and ach ieve quality productivity needed for a business environment.

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David Rouse

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.