Leading the Team Organization: How to Create an Enduring Competitive Advantage

by Dean Tjosvold and Mary Tjosvold

Managers recognize that a good team organization can be the most valuable of their firm's competitive advantages. Lucrative markets draw competitors, efficient technology is copied, profitable products lose their appeal, but a well-run team organization continues to introduce new technologies, find new markets, create new products, and improve service to clients. However, as Dean and Mary Tjosvold reveal, there is a significant shortage both of strong...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0669279722
• ISBN13: 9780669279726
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

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"Here is a contemporary book on labor relations with a title that includes the word "teams." The "team" in this title, however, refers not to work teams but to "team organization": both participatively managed organizations and what Dean and Mary Tjosvold call "partnerships across organizations." This book asserts the value of teamwork and assumes that the problem is how to do it." Outlines the need for teamwork, moral courage, civil and ethical behavior in the marketplace, and genuine concern for the customer at every level of service and management. Practical advice for creating various types of teams and task forces.