Marcus Buckingham

Harvard Business Review

Tom Brady

Tsedal Neeley

Frances X. Frei

Elevate your team's performance.

If you read nothing else on leading winning teams, read this book. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you communicate effectively, build trust, and cultivate a learning culture. From Tom Brady's advice on leading high-performing teams from within to Amy Edmondson's best practices for building psychological safety, this book will inspire you to:

 • Create a culture of open communication
 • Build unwavering trust, even from afar
 • Manage conflict and drive change
 • Set and achieve ambitious goals
 • Hold each other—and yourself—to high standards

This collection of articles includes "The Secrets of Great Teamwork," by Martine Haas and Mark Mortensen; "Begin with Trust," by Frances X. Frei and Anne Morriss; "Great Teams Are About Personalities, Not Just Skills," by Dave Winsborough and Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic; "Discipline of Teams," by Jon R. Katzenbach and Douglas K. Smith; "New Rules for Teamwork," by Angus Dawson and Katy George; "The Feedback Fallacy," by Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall; "How to Preempt Team Conflict," by Ginka Toegel and Jean-Louis Barsoux; "20 Questions to Ask When Your Team's Vibe Is Off," by Liane Davey; "Building the Emotional Intelligence of Groups," by Vanessa Urch Druskat and Steven B. Wolff; "How Are You Protecting Your High Performers from Burnout?," by Matt Plummer; "Use Learning to Engage Your Team," An interview with Whitney Johnson by Sarah Green Carmichael; "Global Teams That Work," by Tsedal Neeley; "Leading the Team You Inherit," by Michael D. Watkins; "Teamwork at the Top," by Gregory LeStage, Sara Nilsson DeHanas, and Pete Gerend; and "Tom Brady on the Art of Leading Teammates," by Tom Brady and Nitin Nohria.

HBR's 10 Must Reads are definitive collections of classic ideas, practical advice, and essential thinking from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Exploring topics like disruptive innovation, emotional intelligence, and new technology in our ever-evolving world, these books empower any leader to make bold decisions and inspire others.

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