Bruce Piasecki - Doing More with Teams: The New Way to Winning

Praise for Doing More with Teams

Piasecki does a superb job at outlining the origins of the teamwork paradigm and its relevance to our lives today. He recognizes its application to business and offers great advice for creating a teamwork inspired atmosphere. Doing More with Teams is an insightful book and a must-have for anyone wanting to create an effective and dynamic workplace environment.

Erol User
CEO and Founder of Istanbul's User Corporation

Rarely has a person accomplished so much, navigated such waters, and reached so high, and still remained accessible and generous enough to share the wealth of knowledge he gained along the steep journey. He has unlocked in this book a wealth of secret truths and translated them into a shareable language we all need to learn. A Renaissance Man, Piasecki has bridged the prodigious communication gaps between the business world, the people, and the realm of social needs.

Hadassah Broscova
Editor-in-Chief, Carpe Articulum Literary Review

Read Bruce Piasecki's book, Doing More with Teams not because it's an interesting read, but because Bruce has decades of experience actually getting teams to do more. I have seen Bruce use his passion, sincerity and creative world view to harness a bunch of Type A executives from different backgrounds and get them going in a new and exciting direction. Learn from someone who loves ideas, who loves people and who loves to bring the two together to accomplish great things.

Robert Lockemer
Director of Remediation and Real Estate, Bayer CropScience LP

More often than not, we tend to lose sight of the simplest truths, in both our business and personal lives. In the sequel to his bestselling Doing More with Less, Bruce Piasecki helps us to retrain our sights on these basic truths, enabling all of us who depend on teams to lead by example and ultimately succeed.

Demetri Chriss
Business Development Manager, Macedonian Thrace Brewery

Hot on the heels of Doing More with Less, Bruce has produced Doing More with Teams where he skillfully lays out the value of working together to achieve greater outcomes. Paired, they are a valuable resource for creating a resilient future for individuals and organizations.

Selena Griffith
Senior Lecturer, University of New South Wales

Cover design: Michael J. Freeland

Copyright 2013 by Bruce Piasecki. All rights reserved.

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Piasecki, Bruce, 1955

Doing More with Teams: The New Way to Winning/Bruce Piasecki.

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Acknowledgments

I'll offer an icy page of thanks, since today is exceptionally snowy.

From the icy Adirondack high country, where alpine itself is defined in splendid flora and frigid fauna, near my homestead and AHC Group offices, to the Navy SEAL teams that abound in mud, mosquito rich swamp, and sweltering heat, teams surround and surprise us.

This makes writing inclusive acknowledgements to what inspired this ninth book of mine rather impossible.

My family forms the most formidable team I have been blessed to encounter.

You will see thanks to my now deceased mother, my wife Andrea Carol Masters, and my daughter, as well as my extended family, in these forthcoming pagesand for good reason. My earliest sense of fairness in teams and the excitement of competition for attention and result derive directly from these early family experiences.

Family gave me the confidence and space to explore now five decades of teamworkthis includes insights from four years of competitive League One Varsity high school basketball, track (where the shot put holes stayed in my Mom's backyard for years), to where the ceaseless running as my team's center halfback in soccer kept me in shape to start the basketball season all over again.

And this love and attention to team and teamwork kept me at it during the 30 years of making, growing, and mastering my firmthe www.ahcgroup.com . In fact, I now see how the first allowed the secondhow competitive sports formed the values in competitive consulting. For the last 30 years as a management consultant, I have met each week with new and amazingly complex teams in full splendor or in serious need of realignment.

Since 1981, I have been, in effect, the captain of my firm as we function daily as a team. You will see each of my Senior Associates and key staff in Appendix A.

I thank again my literary agent William Gladstone, the founder and force behind Waterside Productions, and I thank my speaking agent Shawn Hanks, the chief operating officer and force behind Premier Speakers.

The ultimate visual dictionary of thanks to teams, in my life, would prove vast. For all my past teammates, at last this book.

Winning Without Weapons: A Preamble

There is something about teams that expands our experience of being human. Teams extend our wings, in practical, pragmatic, and measureable ways.

And when done right, this experience of teams makes all of usthose in Asia, Africa, Europe, or North America, rich or poorfeel more humane, more competitive, and more contributory to a shared near-future than ever before in our personal or family lives. Why is this?