Praise for The Journey to Teams

I successfully implemented teams at Alcatel before I read this book, but only after four years of dead ends and wrong turns, a result of reading traditional team building books and using traditional team building consultants. This book would have saved us at least two years and lots of headaches. Subsequently, I used The Journey to Teams as our team implementation road map when I was hired as director of manufacturing at Sumitomo. Within two years we were making record profits, and I was promoted to VP of manufacturing. I recently accepted a new position, and The Journey to Teams will be required reading for all my managers.

Roger Clarizio
Director of Operations, Krone, Inc.

Fresh, clear, logical thinking about team implementation. Easily readable by everyone at every level of the organization. I've read it nine times and each time I learned something new. Don't expect any of the traditional team building stuff that treats teams as the objective. This book treats teams as a means to real objectives - more capable people, producing better business results.

Michael Seleway
Project Manager, Teams Implementation, Cape Canaveral Group

For two years I reviewed books about how to implement teams, but everything I read contained the same old traditional ideas that haven't worked for us (i.e., give employees some basic skills training, then ask them to take turns doing various supervisory functions). The Journey to Teams is a completely different approach. If you want to implement teams, this is the book.

Curt Kufner
Internal Consultant, Fiskars, Inc.