The Secret of a Winning Culture

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Summary: Informative, recommended, groundbreaking reading.
Review: The Secret Of A Winning Culture: Building High Performance Teams is a groundbreaking, practical study based on the management principles developed by the Senn-Delaney Leadership Consulting Group. Senn-Delaney Leadership's philosophy is based on a simple concept: culture and teamwork are everything. The character of the culture, how employees and managers perceive it and their roles within it, how the culture supports teamwork and reacts to change (whether occasioned by expansion, merger, acquisition, technological advances, fluctuations in domestic or global economies) are critical to a company's short-term and long-term success. The Secret Of A Winning Culture is a superbly written, "reader friendly" guide that is highly recommended for anyone aspiring to or charged with managerial responsibilities at any corporate level.

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Summary: Practical, wise, comprehensive and infused with clear vision
Review: This slim volume has packed so many practical and wise ideas, examples and tools gleaned from "20 years of consulting with hundreds of organizations and over 200,000 managers." It is worth repeated readings and reference. The authors have focused on the key components of building winning culture and high-performance teams. Many other approaches to management change fall short because they failed to integrate or align strategies, structures with culture. Different phases in reshaping the corporate culture are clearly explained and illustrated. There are many useful questions, measurement tools, quotes, lists of attributes, guiding behaviors for teamwork and tables of comparison. The listing of "Ineffectual Organizational Habits (old culture) in contrast to "High Performance Behaviors (desired culture) on p. 51, the "high-performance pyramid" chart on p. 136 and the table of "Transitions Toward Leadership in 21st Century" on p. 172 alone are already worth the price of the book. There is much more. For example: a quote from Jack Welch, CEO of GE, General Electric. "Our job is to provide a culture in which people can flourish and reach their dreams--in which they can be all they want to be." (p. 92)

Rating:
Summary: Practical, wise, comprehensive and infused with clear vision
Review: This slim volume has packed so many practical and wise ideas, examples and tools gleaned from "20 years of consulting with hundreds of organizations and over 200,000 managers." It is worth repeated readings and reference. The authors have focused on the key components of building winning culture and high-performance teams. Many other approaches to management change fall short because they failed to integrate or align strategies, structures with culture. Different phases in reshaping the corporate culture are clearly explained and illustrated. There are many useful questions, measurement tools, quotes, lists of attributes, guiding behaviors for teamwork and tables of comparison. The listing of "Ineffectual Organizational Habits (old culture) in contrast to "High Performance Behaviors (desired culture) on p. 51, the "high-performance pyramid" chart on p. 136 and the table of "Transitions Toward Leadership in 21st Century" on p. 172 alone are already worth the price of the book. There is much more. For example: a quote from Jack Welch, CEO of GE, General Electric. "Our job is to provide a culture in which people can flourish and reach their dreams--in which they can be all they want to be." (p. 92)