Author: John Katzenbach
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Keywords: analyst
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2003-02-04
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0345426274
ISBN-13: 9780345426277

Happy fifty third birthday, Doctor. Welcome to the first day of your death. Dr. Frederick Starks, a New York psychoanalyst, has just received a mysterious, threatening letter. Now he finds himself in the middle of a horrific game designed by a man who calls himself Rumplestiltskin. The rules: in two weeks, Starks must guess his tormentor’s identity. If Starks succeeds, he goes free. If he fails, Rumplestiltskin will destroy, one by one, fifty-two of Dr. Starks’ loved ones—unless the good doctor agrees to kill himself. In a blistering race against time, Starks’ is at the mercy of a psyc

Author: John Katzenbach
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Keywords: analyst
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2002-01-29
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0345426266
ISBN-13: 9780345426260

Happy 53rd birthday, Doctor. Welcome to the first day of your death.When a mysterious letter bearing these threatening words is delivered to Dr. Frederick Starks, his predictable life is thrown into chaos. Suddenly, the psychoanalyst is plunged into a horrific game designed by a man who calls himself Rumplestiltskin. The rules: in two weeks Starks must guess Rumplestiltskin’s identity and the source of his fury. If he succeeds, he goes free. If he fails, one by one, Rumplestiltskin will destroy fifty-two of Dr. Starks’ loved ones–friends, relatives, children–unless the good doctor agre

Author: John Katzenbach
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Keywords: war, hart
Number of Pages: 576
Published: 2000-08
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0345426258
ISBN-13: 9780345426253

Second Lieutenant Tommy Hart, a navigator whose B-25 was shot out of the sky in 1942, is burdened with guilt as the only surviving member of his crew. Now he is just another POW at the fiercely guarded Stalag Luft 13 in Bavaria.Then routine comes to a halt with the arrival of a new prisoner: First Lieutenant Lincoln Scott, an African American Tuskegee airman who instantly becomes the target of contempt from his fellow soldiers. When a prisoner is brutally murdered, and all the blood-soaked evidence points to Scott, Hart is tapped to defend the soldier. In a trial rife with racial tension and r

Author: Jon R. Katzenbach
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
Keywords: minds, employees, hearts, aligning, performance, peak
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2000-03-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0875849369
ISBN-13: 9780875849362

Outperforming the Competition with Employees’ Positive Emotional EnergyIt takes a fired-up workforce to deliver consistently higher levels of performance than its competition. What fuels the fire? Emotional commitment to company success, says Jon Katzenbach. Drawing on an in-depth study of twenty-five enterprises -including Marriott International, The Home Depot, Hewlett-Packard, Southwest Airlines, and the U.S. Marine Corps-the author found distinct patterns in how companies engage their employees to capitalize on emotional energy.At the heart of Peak Performance lies Katzenbach̵

Author: Jon R. Katzenbach
Publisher: Harvard Business Pre
Keywords: top, teams
Number of Pages: 238
Published: 1998-01-15
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0875847897
ISBN-13: 9780875847894

It is common knowledge that CEOs declare their direct reports as a team at the top. Yet with a culture of individual accountability and self-reliance pervading executive suites, few management groups ever function as real teams. Now, in a natural follow-up to his bestselling The Wisdom of Teams, Jon Katzenbach offers practical guidelines for increasing leadership capacity at the highest executive levels. He shows how even the strongest and most successful CEO can improve a company’s performance by turning the senior executive group into a real team--without sacrificing each member’

Authors:Jon R. Katzenbach, Zia Khan,
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Keywords: energize, team, results, organization, informal, outside, lines, mobilize, leading
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2010-04-19
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0470589027
ISBN-13: 9780470589021

An all-new approach to understanding the (in)formal connections of an organization From the bestselling coauthor of the business classic The Wisdom of Teams comes an all-new exploration of the modern workplace, and how leaders and managers must embrace it for success. Katzenbach and Khan examine how two distinct factions together form the bigger picture for how organizations actually work: the more defined "formal" organization of a company-the management structure, performance metrics, and processes-and the "informal"-the culture, social networks, and ad hoc communities that spring up

Authors:Jon R. Katzenbach, Douglas K. Smith,
Publisher: Harvard Business Pre
Keywords: organization, performance, creating, teams, wisdom
Number of Pages: 291
Published: 1992-10-01
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0875843670
ISBN-13: 9780875843674

Teams are fast becoming a flexible and efficient way to enhance organizational performance. Yet today’s business leaders consistently overlook opportunities to exploit their potential, confusing teams with teamwork or sharing. In this book, two senior McKinsey & Co. partners argue that we cannot meet the challenges ahead, from total quality to customer service to innovation, without teams. The authors talked with hundreds of people in more than fifty different teams in thirty companies to discover what differentiates various levels of team performance, where and how teams work best, and