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Build an A-Team

Play to Their Strengths and Lead Them Up the Learning Curve
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Build an A-Team by Whitney Johnson is a guide on how to build a top-performing team by applying the principles of disruptive innovation. It offers insights into developing employees' strengths, creating opportunities for learning, and fostering a culture of growth, ensuring individuals and organisations thrive together.
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If you're seeking to enhance your leadership skills and foster a dynamic workplace, this book offers insightful strategies on building a cohesive and high-performing team. It provides guidance on recruiting talent, motivating employees, and ensuring every team member contributes to achieving collective goals. Ideal for those keen on cultivating a thriving and innovative business environment.

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Do you want to have a high-performing team that strives for greatness, even in the face of uncertainty? Do you want to be a boss people love, while also driving high performance? Building morale and high performance are about engagement, and engagement is all about learning, argues Whitney Johnson.

In over twenty years of research, investing, consulting, and coaching, Johnson has seen that people need continuous learning and fresh challenges to stay engaged. In Build an A-Team, you'll learn how to build an "A" team by leading team members on their current learning curve, how to design their jobs to maximise learning and engagement, and how to implement a seven-step process for advancing up the learning curve.

We all want opportunities to learn, experiment, and grow in our jobs. The best bosses know this, and they know how to make it happen through thoughtful role design and just enough challenge. The result is a team that learns how to thrive, no matter what the industry throws at them.

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Build an A-Team by Whitney Johnson is praised for its valuable insights on leadership and team-building. Notable figures highlight its importance in guiding managers to foster growth and potential in their teams. The book is considered essential for those striving to create thriving, innovative work environments, filled with actionable strategies supported by real-life examples.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781633693647

Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 01 May 2018

Country: United States

Imprint: Harvard Business Review Press

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 139.0mm

Height: 209.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 208

About the Author

Whitney Johnson is the CEO of Disruption Advisors, a tech-enabled talent development company, and an expert on smart growth leadership: growing your people to grow your company. Thinkers50 ranked her among the top ten management thinkers in the world in 2021, and in 2020 she was a Top Voice on LinkedIn, where she has 1.8 million followers. Johnson is an award-winning author, world-class keynote speaker, frequent lecturer for Harvard Business Publishing's Corporate Learning division, and an award-winning executive coach and adviser to CEOs. She is the author of several bestselling books, including Disrupt Yourself and Build an A-Team, and hosts the weekly Disrupt Yourself podcast. You can reach her at wj@whitneyjohnson.com.

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