Synergist: How to Lead Your Team to Predictable Success: How to Lead Your Team to Predictable Succes

The Synergist: How to Lead Your Team to Predictable Success: How to Lead Your Team to Predictable Success

By Les McKeown

PRINT ON DEMAND— Shipping will be delayed 1-6 weeks for printing
(Depends on publisher)

"The Synergist" explains a leadership model that trains managers to come together to deliver success--overcoming the gridlock and comprises that typically water down the team approach.

READ FULL DESCRIPTION

Quantity Price Discount
List Price $35.99  
1 + $30.59 15%

Quick Quote

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit

Non-returnable discount pricing

$35.99


Book Information

Publisher: St. Martin's Press.
Publish Date: 01/03/2012
Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780230120556
ISBN-10: 0230120555
Language: English

Full Description

Why do so many teams fail to perform - achieving compromise at best and gridlock at worst? And what does it take to end this gridlock? Wall Street Journal bestselling author and speaker Les McKeown shows how to take any team from gridlock to world class success.

In this book, McKeown argues that every successful team includes a critical player, the Synergist, who can take the three existing types - The bold dreamers (Visionaries), the pragmatic realists (Operators), and the systems designers (Processors) - and knit them together into a dynamic, well-rounded team. Most importantly, according to McKeown, the Synergist is a role that anyone can learn. While most attempts at teamwork improvement deal only with the symptoms of group dysfunction such as distrust, poor communication, and fear of change, McKeown address the root cause: the innately unstable Visionary-Operator-Processor triangle. Because each of the three styles' motivations, views, and goals are incompatible, without a Synergist every team will eventually implode, stall, or underperform. Only the Synergist can put aside their own agenda and interpret the language of difficult personalities, capture the best from each person, and put the good of the enterprise ahead of their own ego. McKeown- who has used techniques presented here in his consulting with Harvard University, American Express Financial Services, the US Army, Pella Corporation, Microsoft, United Technologies Corporation, and more- shows how any individual can fill this critical role, whether or not they're the formal leader of the group. With thought-provoking self-assessments and an extensive Synergist Toolkit, he teaches how anyone can learn to be an effective Synergist by recognizing the vital signs of ineffective teamwork and making the right interventions at these pivotal moments.

About the Author

Les McKeown is the President & CEO of Predictable Success. In this role, he advises CEOs and senior leaders of organizations on how to achieve scalable, sustainable growth and speaks to Fortune 500 companies about his breakthrough strategies.

Learn More

We have updated our privacy policy. Click here to read our full policy.