Tools for Team Leadership--Delivering the X-Factor in Team eXcellence
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Huszczo, Gregory E.
Tools for team leadership: delivering the X-factor in team excellence/Gregory E. Huszczo. ”1st ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
(hardcover)
1. Teams in the workplace. 2. Leadership. 3. Management. I. Title.
HD66.H873 2004
658.4'022 ”dc22
2004015274
FIRST EDITION
First printing 2004
This book is dedicated to my family. . .
a loving, learning, growing group
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I owe a great deal to the men and women whom I have witnessed helping teams in organizations. It has been encouraging to see them care and make a difference, and I have learned from their efforts to provide leadership. They have trusted me as I have attempted to help them help others.
I also owe a great deal to my family and other loved ones. Without them my life would never be in balance. Kathy has made our lovely house a home. Her love and faith make me happy. Sam has grown and blossomed. I am so proud of him. He has become a wonderful man. My mother still wonders why I like to work hard, but she and my dad taught me long ago that learning and helping others is why we are on this earth. Family members Mike, Jan, Amy, Stacy, and Annie have all added joy to my life.
I am grateful to my colleagues. I am blessed to have worked with talented and patient people both through my consulting practice and in our MSHROD Program at Eastern Michigan University. The challenge of trying to articulate what I am observing, researching , and teaching has resulted in insights I could not have achieved without them.
The comments and support from key organizations and individuals must also be recognized. I would like to thank Jim Lomac and Cindy Hayes of the Management Research Group in Portland, Maine, and Paul Davis of the Scanlon Leadership Network for making their resources available to me. I also want to thank the people who reviewed the manuscript and provided their insights: Sue Bird-Johnson, Jack Buettner, Scott Fenton, Peter Geyer, Sandra and Elizabeth Hirsh, Pat McDonnell, Lee Sanborn, Mike Schippani, Maureen Sheahan, Hal Stack, Ed Turnquist, Mary Vielhaber, and Frank Yates.
This book would have never been completed were it not for the wonderful team of people at Davies-Black Publishing and CPP, Inc.
Connie Kallback, Senior Acquisitions Editor, has been particularly helpful to me. She encouraged, cajoled, put up with my sense of humor, and kept me going. Laura Simonds, Director of Marketing and Sales, was so helpful in promoting my previous book and has been kind enough to do the same on this one. Lee Langhammer Law, Publisher, encouraged me to stay with Davies-Black and has convinced me of this company's effectiveness. Mark Chambers provided much-needed help as copyeditor.
Finally, I want to thank the readers of Tools for Team Excellence, who have given me useful feedback, especially regarding material needed to help those who are taking on the responsibilities of providing leadership to teams in their organizations.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Gregory Huszczo received his doctoral degree in industrial/organizational psychology from Michigan State University in 1975. Since then, he has served as a successful organizational change and development consultant to more than 100 organizations while also holding full-time university appointments as a college professor . He has taught at Southern Illinois University, Michigan State University, The University of Southwestern Louisiana, and Eastern Michigan University, where he also served as director of a master's degree program in human resources and organization development.
Huszczo has consulted for client organizations in the manufacturing sector (Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Freightliner Trucks, Navistar, J. I. Case, Unisys, Woodbridge, La-Z-Boy, and many smaller companies); in the service sector (Australian Postal System, Credit Acceptance Corporation, plus several hospitals , city administrations , and school systems); for unions (UAW, SEIU, AFSCME, UA, USW, BAC); and for institutes (National Coalition for Community and Justice, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Facility Management Institute, and several labor-management associations and universities).
Author of more than fifty articles and papers on topics associated with teams, personalities, leadership, change, and union-management relations, as well as two previous books, he lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
EAN: 2147483647
Pages: 137