Audiobooks by Jon R. Katzenbach

Most teams underperform. Yours can beat the odds. If you read (or listen) to nothing else on building better teams, listen to these ten articles. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you assemble and steer teams that get results. Leading experts such as Jon Katzenbach, Teresa Amabile, and Tamara Erickson provide the insights and advice you need to: boost team performance through mutual accountability; motivate large, diverse groups to tackle complex projects; increase your teams' emotional intelligence; prevent decision deadlock; extract results from a bunch of touchy superstars; and fight constructively with top-management colleagues.

Harvard Business Review, Jon R. Katzenbach, Kathleen M. Eisenhardt, Lynda Gratton (Author), Gregory St. John, Susan Larkin (Narrator)

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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing People (with featured article 'Leadership That Gets Results,' by Dan

Managing people is fraught with challenges-even if you're a seasoned manager. Here's how to handle them. If you read (or listen to) nothing else on managing people, listen to these ten articles (featuring 'Leadership That Gets Results,' by Daniel Goleman). We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you maximize your employees' performance. HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing People will inspire you to: tailor your management styles to fit your people; motivate with more responsibility, not more money; support first-time managers; build trust by soliciting input; teach smart people how to learn from failure; build high-performing teams; and manage your boss. This collection of bestselling articles includes: featured article 'Leadership That Gets Results' by Daniel Goleman, 'One More Time: How Do You Motivate Employees?,' 'The Set-Up-to-Fail Syndrome,' 'Saving Your Rookie Managers from Themselves,' 'What Great Managers Do,' 'Fair Process: Managing in the Knowledge Economy,' 'Teaching Smart People How to Learn,' 'How (Un)ethical Are You?,' 'The Discipline of Teams,' and 'Managing Your Boss.'

Daniel Goleman, Harvard Business Review, Jon R. Katzenbach, Renée Mauborgne, W. Chan Kim (Author), Mark Cabus, Susan Larkin (Narrator)

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Leading Outside the Lines: How to Mobilize the (In)formal Organization, Energize Your Team, and Get

An all-new approach to understanding the (in)formal connections of an organization From the bestselling coauthor of the business classic The Wisdom of Teams comes an all-new exploration of the modern workplace, and how leaders and managers must embrace it for success. Katzenbach and Khan examine how two distinct factions together form the bigger picture for how organizations actually work: the more defined 'formal' organization of a company-the management structure, performance metrics, and processes-and the 'informal'-the culture, social networks, and ad hoc communities that spring up naturally and can accelerate or hinder how the organization works. With dynamic examples from enterprises around the world, this book takes a timeless organizational approach and creates a powerful paradigm-shifting toolset for applying it. Includes self-assessment guidelines for senior leaders, front-line managers, and individual contributors Features organizations in business, government, the nonprofit sector, and academia-including the New York City schools system, Aetna, the Marines, United Nations, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Home Depot, Bell Canada, and the Houston Police Department Leading Outside the Lines illustrates how leaders can make the two distinct factions work together to get the best of both.

Jon R. Katzenbach, Zia Khan (Author), Ken Kliban (Narrator)

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The Critical Few: Energize Your Company’s Culture by Choosing What Really Matters

In a global survey by the Katzenbach Center, 80 percent of respondents believed that their organization must evolve to succeed. But a full quarter of them reported that a change effort at their organization had resulted in no visible results. Why? The fate of any change effort depends on whether and how leaders engage their culture: the self-sustaining patterns of behaving, feeling, thinking, and believing that determine how things are done in an organization. Culture is implicit rather than explicit, emotional rather than rational--that's what makes it so hard to work with, but that's also what makes it so powerful. For the first time, this book lays out the Katzenbach Center's proven methodology for identifying your culture's four most critical elements: traits, characteristics that are at the heart of people's emotional connection to what they do; keystone behaviors, actions that would lead your company to succeed if they were replicated at a greater scale; authentic informal leaders, people who have a high degree of 'emotional intuition' or social connectedness; and metrics, integrated, thoughtful measures to track progress, encourage the self-reinforcing cycle of lasting change and link to business performance. By leveraging these critical few elements, you can tap into a source of catalytic change within your organization. People will make an emotional, not just a rational, commitment to new initiatives. You will elicit enthusiasm and creativity and build the kind of powerful company that people recognize for its innate value and effectiveness.

Gretchen Anderson, James Thomas, Jon Katzenbach, Jon R. Katzenbach (Author), Sandy Weaver (Narrator)

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The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization

The Wisdom of Teams is the definitive work on how to create high-performance teams in any organization. Having sold nearly a half million copies and been translated into more than fifteen languages, the authors' clarion call that teams should be the basic unit of organization for most businesses has permanently shaped the way companies reach the highest levels of performance. Wisdom lies in recognizing a team's unique potential to deliver results and in understanding its many benefits-development of individual members, team accomplishments, and stronger companywide performance. Katzenbach and Smith's comprehensive classic is the essential guide to unlocking the potential of teams in your organization.

Douglas K. Smith, Jon R. Katzenbach (Author), Jordan Harrold (Narrator)

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