Doing More with Teams: The New Way to Winning

Praise for Doing More with Teams

"Bruce Piasecki might well be the most interesting writer in the field of business today, in large part because he brings the perspective of a humanist with broad literary training to the table, as in this compelling book about working in teams. Only together do we, as the human race, move forward. This is true in all aspects of life but especially in business. An inspired and inspiring book."
JAY PARINI, author of The Last Station

"Everyone involved in creating exceptional teams should read Bruce Piasecki′s stunning new book. This is the most fun and fundamental business and society book I′ve read in decades. Doing More with Teams is skillfully narrated, with plenty of spice for corporate, military, and sports teams. With warmth and wit, he describes the power of teamwork and high performance and once again, Bruce adds a sense of magic to it. Piasecki offers us an amazing read that opens our mind as it empowers our actions."
COLONEL JOHN MOGGE (USAF Retired), SVP, CH2MHILL

Acknowledgments ix

Winning without Weapons: A Preamble 1

PART I WHAT MAKES THIS CENTURY SEVERE? 11

Chapter 1 To Be Young Forever Is No Fun 13

Chapter 2 Aging across the Ages 33

PART II WHAT MAKES THIS CENTURY SWIFT? 57

Chapter 3 Team Coherence: Readjusting Your Gaze 59

Chapter 4 Team Integrity: Extending Our Wings 83

PART III A NEW KIND OF WINNING 101

Chapter 5 Lance Armstrong and the Pleasures of Accomplishment 103

Chapter 6 Freedom and Fate in Teams 129

Appendix A Bruce Piasecki s Core Team: The AHC Group 147

Appendix B Near Future Training 157

Also by Bruce Piasecki 163

Index 165

BRUCE PIASECKI is President and founder of AHC Group, Inc., a management consulting firm. For more than thirty years, AHC Group has focused on the critical areas of corporate governance consulting, energy, and environmental strategy, product innovation, and sustainability strategy. Whether working with Toyota, Shaw Industries, Suncor Energy, or FMC, Bruce and his team show companies how to compete on price, quality, and social needs. Piasecki has evolved from a niche expert on environmental issues for Fortune 500 corporations to a mainstream advocate for sustainable strategies for everyone. He has taught at Cornell University, Clarkson University, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, becoming a tenured faculty member and then a director of a master of science graduate program. Piasecki holds a PhD and bachelor′s degree from Cornell University, where he was a Cornell National Scholar Award winner. He is the author of the bestselling Doing More with Less (Wiley).