Smart Leaders, Smarter Teams - by Roger M Schwarz (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

More than ever, effective leadership requires us to work as a team, but many leaders struggle to get the results they need. When stakes are high, you can't get great results by just changing what you do. You also need to change how you think. Organizational psychologist and leadership consultant Roger Schwarz applies his 30+ years of experience working with leadership teams to reveal how leaders can drastically improve results by changing their individual and team mindset.

• Provides practical guidance to help teams increase decision quality, decrease implementation time, foster innovation, get commitment, reduce costs and increase trust
• Outlines 5 core values leadership teams can adopt to exponentially improve results
• Author of The Skilled Facilitator and The Skilled Facilitator Fieldbook

Get the results you and your team need. Start by applying the practical wisdom of Smart Leaders, Smarter Teams.

From the Back Cover

PRAISE FOR SMART LEADERS, SMARTER TEAMS

"Roger Schwarz has hit the nail on the head. To bring positive long-term change and achieve the results you and your team are capable of, you can't just change how you act; you need to fundamentally change how you think about your team. Practical. Insightful. Outstanding."
--Marshall Goldsmith, million-selling author, MOJO and What Got You Here Won't Get You There

"Roger Schwarz argues that leaders must first change themselves to change their teams and transform results. He clearly explains how a default approach used by many leaders leads them and their teams to get stuck. He also provides a winning alternative--a set of values and beliefs that leaders can adopt to build commitment, make better decisions, and obtain better results."
--Amy Edmondson, Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management, Harvard Business School; author, Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy

"A powerful compendium of practical wisdom that artfully gets at the 'what' and the 'why' of superior team leadership and performance. A very worthy read."
--Douglas R. Conant, former president, CEO, and director, Campbell Soup Company; New York Times bestselling author, TouchPoints: Creating Powerful Leadership Connections in the Smallest of Moments

"In Smart Leaders, Smarter Teams, Roger has done for leadership teams what The Skilled Facilitator did for facilitators--provides a practical and powerful framework for getting to the heart of tough challenges, getting unstuck, and getting the results they need. This book should become required reading for all leadership teams."
--Thomas P. Zgambo, ombudsman, the World Bank Group; former president, the Ombudsman Association (now International Ombudsman Association)

About the Author

ROGER SCHWARZ has been a recognized thought leader in the realm of team leadership for three decades. An organizational psychologist and president and CEO of Roger Schwarz Associates, he is a sought-after advisor to global companies, federal government agencies, and international nonprofit organizations.

Clients include Hewlett-Packard, the American Red Cross, the World Bank, TransCanada, Chevron, and the U.S. Department of the Interior. He is author of the seminal work The Skilled Facilitator and coauthor of The Skilled Facilitator Fieldbook. He holds a Ph.D. in organizational psychology from the University of Michigan, and a master of education degree from Harvard University. Schwarz lives in Chapel Hill with his wife. They have two children.

www.schwarzassociates.com