Peter Scholtes; The Team Handbook
recommended
As a consultancy business, we have built a library containing hundreds of books – allowing us to keep up to date with the latest business management ideas, tools and techniques and providing us with useful reference sources for use in our day-to-day work.
Many of our clients have asked us to recommend books for their own use – so we’ve decided to publish a list of those books we’ve found most useful, and we include more detailed reviews of some of our favourites.
We can guarantee that between us we’ve read all of them – so our recommendations are based on personal knowledge of the books in question. For your benefit, we’ve provided links to Amazon for each book. If you’re interested in purchasing any then click-through from this page to see the Kindle version – and as a disclaimer, we will receive a small commission if you decide to buy.
What this book is about
The Team Handbook explains how to run a business improvement project – using cross-functional teams and the kind of factual, measurement-based approach to improvement favoured by Lean Thinking.
The book is structured for practical use. A novice team can work through an entire project, step by step, following the exercises recommended in each chapter. There is enough of an introduction and discussion given in each chapter to brief the team and prepare it for the work it has to carry out.
How we use the book
We ask new project team members to read the book to provide background information on what goes on during a business improvement project.
We have given copies of the book to client project teams to help them run their own improvement projects.
We use the book for reference purposes – as it contains numerous worked examples and templates that can be adapted for use on any improvement project.
What the book does not cover
Actually, very little is left out. We’d add further details on stakeholder management, benefit management and risk management, particularly for the kinds of project we carry out – however the contents are pretty comprehensive.
General
This book is excellent, well-written, and instructive.
At over 400 pages it is detailed enough to coach new project team members and there is always something new to learn or remind yourself of each time you read it.
Highly recommended. Buy one for each member of your performance improvement teams.
