Thomas L. Steding - Real Teams Win: What Smart Leaders Need to Know Now About Achieving Peak Performance

More Advance Praise for Real Teams Win

Steding has proven repeatedly in his work as a CEO that he knows exactly what needs to be done to build and lead a real team. If you follow his process, youll be able to create a team that will accomplish more, faster than ever before.

Dr. Dan Thomas, PhD, CEO Focus, Inc. and author of Business Sense

Stedings work underscores the richness and power of creativity over a task-oriented approach. His book Real Teams Win, his guidance and his consulting skills are invaluable for all CEOs across industries. Now more than ever, Toms wisdom will make transformational change possible.

Michela Abrams, Founder MOCA+, former CEO Dwell Media

The myth of the omnipotent CEO makes great press but damages its leaders and employees. Real Teams Win describes a better way to build high performance organizations through creative collaboration, creating a blueprint of Enterprise, Culture, Mindset and the practices and principles necessary to implement a new cultureone that where both the people and company thrive and excel.

Steve Blank, Defense Business Board at US DoD, and author of The Startup Owners Manual

Tom Steding begins his book, Real Teams Win, by asserting that to understand how an organization really works, it is much more useful to look at its internal networks that show how information and influence really flow than to rely on a traditional org chart that indicate only formal relationships. He also argues that building strong teams is more critical to the success of a business than finding a heroic leader. Steding uses these insights as jumping-off points to describe in detail the principles and practices that organizations need to adopt in order to create a healthy culture and sustain productive teams. Stedings book is an artful blend of theory drawn from a variety of disciples including mythology and psychology, and practical advice that is firmly grounded in his extensive experience working with a wide range of companies.

Richard Adler, Distinguished Fellow, Institute for the Future

In this timely, remarkable, emotionally intelligent presentation of a truly twenty-first century vision of leadership, Dr. Steding offer an engaging, deceptively easy read of how his deep understanding of complexity can be transformatively applied to teams in organizations. Having put his principles into practice, I can attest to their efficacy. In a nutshell, creative collaboration engenders group wisdom which, when applied to the business sector, achieves far more than any individual, no matter the genius. Real Teams Win yields magic results.

Joseph Cambray, PhD, President/CEO, Pacifica Graduate Institute

Since the start of the Industrial Age, businesses have been built on a mechanical model that in no way, shape or form maps to the most effective ways for humans to work together. Tom Steding has made the compelling case that collaborative teams built on the uniquely powerful human capacity for empathy are the ones that produce the most astounding results. But way beyond making the case for this, Tom has created the effective, practical, Blueprint for our time in his great book, Real Teams Win. I am thrilled that now business leaders at all levels will get to benefit from the Blueprint through this book.

Betsy Burroughs, President, FocusCatalyst and author of FOCUS

Steding has been leading teams in Silicon Valley for 40 years, including more than a dozen startups. He has seen it all. His perspective on authentic, effective leadership is valuable to seasoned executives, aspiring leaders and first-time managers.

David Spreng, Founder, CEO & CIO at Runway Growth Capital

Building and growing a business is hard. Especially so since most entrepreneurs and managers start with a faulty view of leadership. Tom Stedings book, Real Teams Win, brings over 40 years of management experience to provide a practical Blueprint for building the high-performance teams needed for a successful business today. Stedings insight goes beyond acknowledging the importance of corporate culture. He provides the framework and steps to establish the mindset needed to create highly effective teams.

Reid Rutherford, Managing Partner, 1Flourish Capital

As a CEO seeking best leadership practice while running multiple companies, both public and private, Real Teams Win arrives as a breakthrough treatment of the topic. Tom Steding has reinforced what I always thought was an important part of my approach and takes it even further. I heartily recommend this for CEO reading, but also for anyone in the organization looking for a more meaningful and effective approach to their respective roles.

Doug Cole, CEO, American Battery Technology Company

Unlike most business books that try to turn a simple idea in to 250 pages, Tom Steding lifts the veil on the next generation of leadership philosophy that evolved in Silicon Valley over the past decade. Building upon psychology breakthroughs pioneered by Dr. Howard Teich, I saw Tom embody the true essence of leading with empathy. However, the insights go much deeper and create the foundation for an entirely new way to achieve high performance in organizations.

B. Ray Conley, CEO Benetic, former CEO CreekStone Capital Management, LLC and Managing Partner Golden Oak Ventures

Distilling hard-earned learnings from leading over a dozen tech start-ups, Tom Steding offers an elegantly simple but difficult-to-master framework for fostering the true teamwork absolutely essential to a high-performing organization. Eminently practical yet enjoyable to read, Tom draws upon the lessons taught by mythology over the centuries to illustrate how each of us can leverage our unique attributes to be more effective in working within environments characterized better by amorphous networks than by defined organizational charts.

Richard Stuebi, President/Founder of Future Energy Advisors, Senior Fellow at Boston University Institute for Sustainable Energy, former consultant at McKinsey & Co.

In a world awash in chaos, Real Teams Win provides a beacon of clarity to guide leaders across all sectors of organizational form to transcend the din of disorienting events that exist today where networks trump hierarchies and people compete to cooperate. Steding has produced an indispensable guide to anyone tasked with transforming their organization for the next generation of human challenges.

William Steding, PhD, author of Saving America in the Age of Deceit

I have known and worked with Tom Steding in senior management roles for over 20 years, and I have had the good fortune to observe firsthand his Blueprint in action. Tom has not only written Real Teams Win, he has lived it. His ability to bring together disparate groups of people to create highly effect teams who get things done is unmatched. Everyone, from team members to CEOs, needs to read this book.

Linda Hayes, CEO, Linda Hayes Consulting, former CEO, Andale, Inc.

REAL

TEAMS

WIN

What Smart Leaders
Need to Know Now About
Achieving Peak Performance

THOMAS L. STEDING, PH.D.

Humanix Books

Real Teams Win

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