Stirring the creative juices in organizations today requires a new mindset regarding goal setting and performance evaluation. The coauthor with Jon Katzenbach of the acclaimed The Wisdom of Teams (Harvard Business School Press, 1992) offers the critical basics for setting and achieving performance outcomes and goals. Using an innovative approach, Smith divides each chapter into a “Mindbook” section – explaining concepts and ideasand a “Workbook” section with detailed examples and exercises. Emphasizing the “outcomes” as opposed to the “actions” in setting goals, Smith provides the what’s and why’s behind today’s performance challenges and shows how to convert them into measurable concrete achievements.
Book Details:
- Author: Douglas K. Smith
- ISBN: 9780470348192
- Year Published: 1999
- Pages: 256
- BISAC: BUS041000, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS/Management
About the Book and Topic:
Stirring the creative juices in organizations today requires a new mindset regarding goal setting and performance evaluation. The coauthor with Jon Katzenbach of the acclaimed The Wisdom of Teams (Harvard Business School Press, 1992) offers the critical basics for setting and achieving performance outcomes and goals. Using an innovative approach, Smith divides each chapter into a “Mindbook” section – explaining concepts and ideasand a “Workbook” section with detailed examples and exercises. Emphasizing the “outcomes” as opposed to the “actions” in setting goals, Smith provides the what’s and why’s behind today’s performance challenges and shows how to convert them into measurable concrete achievements.
An innovative approach to setting and achieving goals. * A new interactive approach: by using the Mindbook and Workbook structure, the book complements the “why’s” with the “how-to’s.” * Co-author of the best-selling The Wisdom of Teams and author of the pathbreaking book, Taking Charge of Change.
About the Author
DOUGLAS K. SMITH is an internationally recognized author and consultant on organization performance, innovation, and change. He is coauthor of The Wisdom of Teams and author of Taking Charge of Change. His work on teams and organizational performance has been featured in Business Week, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Harvard Business Review, and the McKinsey Quarterly.