Welcome to the Companion Website for Mastering Team Leadership
WEB MATERIALS FOR MASTERING TEAM LEADERSHIP
The web site for Belbin Associates. The site contains valuable information about team role theory and workset.
The Leadership Trust (Training) Limited is one of the UK's major providers of "open" leadership development programmes in the UK. We also develop customised leadership development programmes to meet specific client's needs. Every year around 1,200-1,500 delegates from many different countries of the world attend The Leadership Trust's programmes. They come from all walks of life, from the commercial to the public sector, from the armed forces to the teaching profession.
http://www.bettermanagement.com
BetterManagement.com is the authoritative Internet resource for Performance Management information.
BetterManagement.com aggregates content from over 200 leading organizations including Harvard Business School Working Knowledge, The McKinsey Quarterly, and University of Pennsylvania’s Knowledge@Wharton (Wharton being one of the major US business schools)..
This extensive library is organized into "Authorities." These key topic areas include: Scorecard, Cost Management, Planning and Budgeting, Value Chain and Business Intelligence. "Resource Centers" are more narrowly focused areas of performance management subjects. This list is expanding as demand for specific content increases.
Membership to BetterManagement.com is free, and provides access to thousands of articles and white papers, 20 web seminars monthly, audio/video presentations, and a bookstore with thousands of performance management titles.
http://www.rainmakerthinking.com
This is the site of RainmakerThinking, Inc.® I founded by Bruce Tulgan in 1992 to study the working lives of young people. Tulgan is the author of Generation X (1996, Oxford, Capstone) and Winning the Talent Wars, (2001, London, Nicholas Brealey) both of which look at the new leadership and management styles that will be required for the new economy in the 21st Century.
The Center for Creative Leadership is a nonprofit educational institution that is an internationally recognized resource for understanding and expanding the leadership capabilities of individuals and organizations.
The philosophy of the Center is that leadership development is the cornerstone of organizational effectiveness. It's stated role is to help address the leadership component of both business and organizational challenges - a strategy our clients say gives them an advantage in today's fast-paced, high-pressure environment.
http://www.afirstlook.com/archive/groupthink.cfm?source.archther
A useful article linking groupthink to the loss of the US space-shuttle Challenger.