Smart Leaders, Smarter Teams: How You and Your Team Get Unstuck to Get Results [Hardcover]

A proven approach for helping leaders and teams work together to achieve better decisions, greater commitment, and stronger results

More than ever, effective leadership requires us to work as a team, but many leaders struggle to get the results they need. When stakes are high, you can't get great results by just changing what you do. You also need to change how you think. Organizational psychologist and leadership consultant Roger Schwarz applies his 30+ years of experience working with leadership teams to reveal how leaders can drastically improve results by changing their individual and team mindset.

• Provides practical guidance to help teams increase decision quality, decrease implementation time, foster innovation, get commitment, reduce costs and increase trust
• Outlines 5 core values leadership teams can adopt to exponentially improve results
• Author of The Skilled Facilitator and The Skilled Facilitator Fieldbook

Get the results you and your team need. Start by applying the practical wisdom of Smart Leaders, Smarter Teams.

Preface xi

Who this book is for, what it is about, and why I wrote it.

1 How Well Does Your Team Really Work? 1

Why does a group of smart leaders so often create a less-than-smart team? Th is chapter describes how the mindset leaders use can get them and their team stuck. It explains why adopting a mutual learning set of values and assumptions gets you and your team unstuck so that you get more done and achieve your goals.

2 How You and Your Team Get Stuck: The Unilateral Control Approach 25

When you and your team try to achieve your goals by unilaterally controlling the situation, you get the very results ylÓà