@article{22369, note = {Contents : Part 1. Start-up and early stages : 1. Focusing on the patient to meet the challenges of health care reform; 2. The evolving role of leadership in creating flexible, productive teams; 3. Keeping in step with a rapidly changing market; 4. Building teams from the ground up by developing new team skills; 5. Streamlining business processes to stay competitive; 6. Making a commitment to involve everyone in the change; 7. Using teamwork to redesign core processes; 8. Driving reengineering through empowered teams; Part 2. Experienced and maturing stages : 9. Teams in fas-forward : building commitment quickly; 10. Gaining business focus through mini-enterprise units; 11. The plant start-up that became the model for high-performance teams; 12. Making teams work in union and nonunion facilities; 13. Project-based teams : creating flexibility and focus in a matrix environment; 14. Achieving customer satisfaction by managing the whole business with teams; 15. Using total quality management as the foundation for teams; 16. How empowered teams helped win the Malcolm Baldridge award; 17. The Baldridge and beyond : sustaining systemwide reengineering and empowerment; 18. The language of teams can be spoken anywhere; 19. Aligning systems to keep teams on the high-performance track; 20. Leading teams : transforming managers into coaches; 3. Lessons learned : 21. Taking a deeper look inside teams : a summary of best practices; 22. The future of teams : predictions about the journey toward empowerment;.}, author = {Wellins, Richard S., and Byham, William C., and Dixon, George R.,}, url = {http://tind.wipo.int/record/22369}, title = {Inside teams : how 20 world-class organizations are winning through teamwork /}, recid = {22369}, pages = {xxii, 366 pages ;}, }