Do you face the challenge of building and leading a new team? Revitalizing a stagnant one? Extreme Teams examines the team practices driving growth in seven of the world's most cutting-edge firms. They do this by challenging conventional wisdom and doing things differently. The book takes you inside these bold companies and examines the teamwork approaches powering their results, including how: 
<ul>
<li>Pixar's teams use rapid-cycle feedback and no-holds debate to transform initially flawed films into billion-dollar hits</li>
<li>A culture of radical "freedom and responsibility" helps Netflix execute on the next big thing and transform its industry</li>
<li>Whole Food's super-autonomous teams embrace tough metrics and friendly competition to drive performance</li>
<li>Zappos embraces the weirdness and fun that sustains its success</li>
</ul>Times change, and so must teams. Designing and managing high-performance teams requires upgrading outdated beliefs and behaviors, and creating in your company the level of intensity and collaboration needed to face down any challenge.

Extreme Teams: Why Pixar, Netflix, Airbnb, and Other Cutting-Edge Companies Succeed Where Most Fail

Business & Money

Shaw, Robert Bruce

Business Culture

AMACOM

What makes great leaders like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Howard Schultz, and Steve Jobs extraordinary All In shows leaders and aspiring leaders how obsession can fuel the most incredible successes, but also how it can take a serious toll on company culture, families, and support networks. As a psychologist once noted, "When people with creative energy succeed in putting their obsessional personality traits to good use, everyone benefits." What personality trait is found in all extraordinary leaders A passionate commitment to achieving their vision that borders, and sometimes crosses the line into, obsession. All In shows leaders and aspiring leaders how obsession, if properly focused and managed, is necessary and productive. Advances in any field almost always depend on a small group of individuals who are completely consumed by the goal they're pursuing. All In explores the four types of productive obsession underlying the success of great leaders and their companies: <ul> <li>Delighting customers</li> <li>Creating extraordinary products</li> <li>Building an enduring company</li> <li>Contributing to society</li> </ul> By studying the success stories of our most iconic leaders, like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Howard Shultz, and Steve Jobs, acclaimed author Robert Bruce Shaw shows the upside of obsession and the organizational practices that support it. Shaw also provides insight into the dark side of obsession and the price it can extract--from individuals, their families, and the organizations in which they work. Appealing to any reader of entrepreneurial biographies, All In shows how to manage obsession's downsides while realizing the benefits of relentlessly seeking to create something that truly matters.

All In: How Obsessive Leaders Achieve the Extraordinary

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

HarperCollins Leadership

Extraordinary leaders share a passionate commitment to achieving their vision that borders and sometimes crosses the line into obsession. All In shows why obsession, if properly focused and managed, is both necessary and productive. 
Advances in any endeavor almost always depend on a small group of individuals who are completely consumed by the goal they're pursuing. When these leaders and teams are successful, everyone benefits from their obsessive nature. 
This book?explores the three obsessions underlying the achievements of the greatest leaders: delighting customers, building great products, and creating an enduring company. Author Robert Bruce Shaw takes you inside the success stories of iconic leaders and shows the upside of obsession plus the practices that support it, including Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Elon Musk of Tesla, and Steve Jobs of Apple. 
In All In, Shaw teaches you why: Amazon's first principle is customer obsession and the behaviors that sustain it as the firm becomes one of the largest in the world. Tesla puts products at the center of everything it does and the leadership approach that created a revolutionary electric car. Steve Jobs' greatest creation was not the Mac or iPhone but Apple the company. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ???? 
Shaw also provides insight into the dark side of obsession and its destructive potential - as vividly illustrated in his case study of Uber's aggressive pursuit of growth during the tenure of CEO Travis Kalanick. 
Appealing to any reader of entrepreneurial biographies, All In shows individuals, teams and organizations how to manage obsession's downsides while realizing the benefits of relentlessly seeking to create something that truly matters.

All In

Review\n..".great insight...gives ideas for those firms that would like to hire the best employee and motivate them to perform at the highest level they can." --PM World Journal\n..".takes a very balanced, shockingly brutal look at the benefits, costs and potential pitfalls of utilizing high-performance teams...one of the few books that I have seen to directly address teams realistically." -PM World Journal\n..".provides a very informative look into the processes that make teams at firms such as Pixar and Alibaba so successful." --Choice\n"Teamwork requires more than the occasional pizza party or rock-climbing expedition. Extreme Teams looks at the team-building practices of high-performing companies to identify what works best." --Accounting Today\nThis book takes a revitalized look at how teams should work in today’s business is driving real growth in some of the world’s most innovative firms. 
Every manager desires to have great teams around them collaborating together and running with the mission. Unfortunately, most of these teams have been built around outdated practices made popular by companies that either no longer exist or haven’t been relevant in years. 
However, a new generation of teams has learned to do things differently--things like hiring the right person instead of the best person; focusing on one priority while leaving room to explore new ideas; creating an environment where people are comfortable dealing with the uncomfortable; and maximizing profit by not making it top priority. 
In Extreme Teams, take a peek into top companies and examine the teamwork experiments powering their results, including how: Pixar’s teams use constant feedback and debate to transform initially flawed films into billion-dollar hits A culture of radical “freedom and responsibility” helps Netflix execute on the next big thing Whole Food’s super-autonomous teams embrace hard metrics and friendly competition to drive performance Zappos fuels the weirdness and fun that sustains its success 
From marketing to design to technology to product demand, everything has changed in business and will continue to do so. Why shouldn’t the teams carrying out these changes undergo their own upgrades?\nFrom the Inside Flap\nGreat achievements are almost always the work of great teams. But most leaders rely on decades-old ideas and practices about teams developed by companies that have lost their edge. Times change and so must our teams. Those who cling to outdated views of teamwork and team building will be left behind. So what do you need to do to create a team that can successfully face the challenges of today's world? To answer that question, Robert Bruce Shaw examines the work practices of innovative high-growth companies such as Whole Foods, Pixar, and Netflix. These firms became ground-breaking leaders in their industries, in part, by boldly rewriting the rules of teamwork. Extreme Teams provides a detailed analysis of how the leaders at these companies think and operate-and, in particular, describes their approaches for creating high energy teams that deliver extraordinary results. You will learn in Extreme Teams - How Alibaba strives to hire the right people-not the best people - Why co-workers determine if you stay or go at Whole Foods - The benefit to Airbnb of letting its employees determine the projects on which they work - How employees at Patagonia have nearly complete control over their work and play hours - What Pixar does to avoid repeating what worked for it in the past - Why Netflix rewards average performance with a generous severance package - What will get you fired at Zappos-and it's not what you think Filled with success stories from some of the most exciting firms operating today, Extreme Teams will push you to think about teams in new ways. It is filled with pragmatic suggestions that you can use to move your team to the next level of engagement and performance. This is the book for those who want to go bey

Extraordinary leaders share a passionate commitment to achieving their vision that borders and sometimes crosses the line into obsession. All In shows why obsession, if properly focused and managed, is both necessary and productive. Advances in any endeavor almost always depend on a small group of individuals who are completely consumed by the goal they're pursuing. When these leaders and teams are successful, everyone benefits from their obsessive nature. All In explores the three obsessions underlying the achievements of the greatest leaders: delighting customers, building great products and creating an enduring company. By taking you inside the success stories of iconic leaders, including Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Elon Musk of Tesla, and Steve Jobs of Apple, author Robert Bruce Shaw shows the upside of obsession and the practices that support it. Learn why... <ul> <li>Amazon's first principle is customer obsession and the behaviors that sustain it as the firm becomes one of the largest in the world. The company strives to "work backwards" from the customer in its day-to-day operations and when making key decisions.</li> <li>Tesla puts products at the center of everything it does and the leadership approach that created a revolutionary electric car. Musk believes great companies are built on great products, and anything that does not improve the quality and appeal of his firm's cars is a waste of time.</li> <li>Steve Jobs' greatest creation was not the Mac or iPhone but Apple the company. He was forceful in creating a unique and enduring culture that has continued to thrive in the decade since his death.</li> </ul> Shaw also provides insight into the dark side of obsession and its destructive potential - as vividly illustrated in his case study of Uber's aggressive pursuit of growth during the tenure of CEO Travis Kalanick. Appealing to any reader of entrepreneurial biographies, All In shows individuals, teams and organizations how to manage obsession's downsides while realizing the benefits of relentlessly seeking to create something that truly matters.

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Extreme Teams: Why Pixar, Netflix, Airbnb, and Other Cutting-Edge Companies Succeed Where Most Fail

All In: How Obsessive Leaders Achieve the Extraordinary

All In: How Obsessive Leaders Achieve the Extraordinary

All In

Extreme Teams: Why Pixar, Netflix, Airbnb, and Other Cutting-Edge Companies Succeed Where Most Fail

All In: How Obsessive Leaders Achieve the Extraordinary