What’s the secret to having an engaged and productive team? It’s having a plan for developing allemployees—no matter where they are on their personal learning curves.
Better morale and higher performance happen through learning, argues Whitney Johnson. In over twenty years of coaching, investing, and consulting, Johnson has seen that employees need continuous learning and fresh challenges to stay motivated.
The best bosses know this, and they know how to make it happen by thoughtfully designing people’s jobs around the skills they have today as well as the skills they’ll need to be even more valuable tomorrow. That’s how entire organizations stay competitive in an unpredictable, rapidly changing business environment.
In this book, Johnson explains how to become one of those bosses and how to build your A-team by:
We all want opportunities to learn, experiment, and grow in our jobs. When our bosses work with us to help us leap to new challenges, the result is a team that knows how to thrive, no matter what the future holds
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“Almost everyone has been at a job that felt like an endless dead end. Whitney Johnson wants to solve that. She is your career coach, business analyst, and inspired professional, cheering you towards ‘self-disruption’ from the proximity of your earbuds. Sharing her lessons about building excellent teams employee by employee, she sounds confident, steady, and expansive in her explanations. Her wisdom applies equally to business managers and to those they supervise. Her warmth and interest in her topic are palpable. This is an audiobook you can listen to from start to finish or dip in and out of as the mood strikes.”
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“Whitney Johnson delivers an insightful book, providing strategies every leader can use to build high-performing teams.”
— Alan Mulally, former president and CEO, Ford Motor Company; former CEO, Boeing Commercial Airplanes; and director, Google and Carbon 3D“Management, when practiced well, is a noble profession. Build an A-Team is an important book for managers who desire to help their team members learn, grow, and realize their potential.”
— Clayton Christensen, Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School, and author of The Innovator’s DilemmaWhitney Johnson is a CEO adviser and the author of the critically acclaimed Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. Previously, she was an award-winning Wall Street analyst and cofounder of the Disruptive Innovation Fund. She is a frequent keynote speaker on disruption, is recognized as one of the world’s most influential management thinkers by Thinkers50 and Fortune, and hosts the weekly Disrupt Yourself podcast.