"If you need the best practices and ideas for superior team building - but don't have the time to find them - this book is for you. Here are 10 inspiring and useful perspectives, all in one place"--Back cover.

Includes index.

Why teams don't work /Diane Coutu -- The discipline of teams / Jon R Katzenbach and Douglas K. Smith -- Eight ways to build collaborative teams / Lynda Gratton and Tamara J. Erickson -- Building the emotional intelligence of groups / Vanessa Urch Druskat and Steven B. Wolff -- Managing multicultural teams / Jeanne Brett, Kristin Behfar, and Mary C. Kern -- The tough work of turning around a team / Bill Parcells -- When teams can't decide / Bob Frisch -- Virtuoso teams / Bill Fischer and Andy Boynton -- How management teams can have a good fight / Kathleen M Eisenhardt, Jean L. Kahwajy, and L.J. Bourgeois III -- Can absence make a team grow stronger? / Ann Majchrzak [and others].