"Many books come across my desk as a department chair, and I send most to junior faculty to read. I held on to this one because I couldn't put it down. Very well written. Flawlessly edited. Full of content and references to business. In my last book about leadership, In Extremis Leadership: Leading As If Your Life Depended On It (JB Leader to Leader Institute/PF Drucker Foundation), I wrote about high-performing teams in high-risk contexts. But Guttman's book has much broader applicability and is laser focused on teams—it will soon be a classic among leaders and managers. It's the best book I read all summer. Great Business Teams will find its way into my classroom, but I'm even more excited about applying the ideas in this book to the teams that I help lead. This one's a gem."

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