Author:Khoi Tu
In Superteams, Khoi Tu reveals the secrets to taking your team to the top.
When Disney shutdown production on Toy Story, how did Pixar save it?
What turned sworn rivals into a winning Ryder Cup team?
Why is the Stones' longevity down to Mick and Keith's rivalry?
These are the stories behind the world's greatest superteams. In seven fascinating case studies, Khoi Tu investigates why it is that some teams excel, endure, and overcome insuperable odds. How they deliver the impossible and remain loyal to one another in the very best - and worst - of circumstances.
From Ferarri Formula One to the Iranian Embassy Siege Team, from the Red Cross in Haiti to the Northern Ireland Peace Process negotiators, you'll learn the secrets of the superteams: how to build a team from scratch, work powerfully together, and perform at your peak. Go stellar with your own superteam.
'Buy this book - it's a game-changer' -Jamie Oliver
'Inspirational' -Sir Jackie Stewart
'Khoi Tu is the most visionary among visionaries' -Management Today
Khoi Tu is a teamwork consultant who has worked with teams at Coca-Cola, BP, Deutsche Bank, UBS, Tesco, LVMH and the British Red Cross. He has also advised some of the world's most influential individuals, including Jamie Oliver, leading entrepreneurs and Formula One world champions. He worked around the world for Shell before joining the pioneering web design company Razorfish during the early days of the dot com boom. He jointly founded a leadership advisory firm with Booz Allen Hamilton before starting his own company, Inverstar, in 2006. Khoi Tu will donate all his royalties from the sale of Superteams to the British Red Cross, which works both in the UK and overseas. www.superteams.org
Buy this book - it's a game-changer
—— Jamie OliverKhoi Tu has an inspirational mind, full of curiosity, and a strong desire to find solutions for issues that can seem to be unsolvable
—— Sir Jackie Stewart, three-time World Drivers’ ChampionInsightful... this book will be an essential in any managers' toolkit
—— Sir Nicholas Young, CEO of British Red CrossKhoi Tu is the most visionary among visionaries
—— Management TodayDemystifies and choreographs what's needed to create high performance teams. Anybody interested in teambuilding and teamwork would do well to have a serious look at this book
—— Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries, INSEAD Global Leadership CentreJeff Sutherland has written the essence of Scrum for the masses. In this easy-to-read book, which is filled with lively stories, apt metaphors, and illuminating quotes, Jeff has converted all the ‘tacit knowledge’ he has gained -- as a West Point cadet, fighter pilot in Vietnam, Aikido enthusiast, academic, technology expert, and father of Scrum -- into wisdom. This book elevates Scrum from a fix-it tool to a way of life.
—— Hirotaka Takeuchi, Professor of Management Practice, Harvard Business SchoolJeff Sutherland's book masterfully speaks truth to the political complexities that easily stand in the way of getting a lot of work done in the least amount of time. He lays out a doctrine of simplicity, showing -- with surprising insight -- how to categorize roadblocks, systematize solutions, choose action over prolonged study, and retain the important emotional aspects of work that ground meaningful interactions. The busy professionals who’ll likely be drawn to this book will find not only an effective manual for getting things done but, also, a how-to guide for living a meaningful life.
—— John Maeda, Design Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & ByersThis extraordinary book shows a new way to simplify your life and work, increase your focus, and get more done in less time than you ever thought possible.
—— Brian Tracy, bestselling author of Eat that Frog and Time PowerEngaging…Sutherland tackles the problem of the perennially late, over-budget project—and actually shows how to solve it. His fascinating examples of rescued projects will change the way you think and act.
—— Dorothy Leonard and Walter Swap, authors of Deep Smarts: How to Cultivate and Transfer Enduring Business WisdomJeff Sutherland is the master of creating high-performing teams. The subtitle of this book understates Scrum’s impact. If you don’t get three times the results in one-third the time, you aren’t doing it right!
—— Scott Maxwell, Founder & Senior Managing Director, OpenView Venture PartnersJeff Sutherland used the common-sense but seldom-applied principles of the quality movement, user-centered design, and lean development to come up with a process that dramatically increases productivity while reducing employees’ frustrations with the typical corporate nonsense. This book is the best description I’ve seen of how this process can work across many industries. Senior leaders should not just read the book—they should do what Sutherland recommends.
—— Jeffrey Pfeffer, Professor, Stanford Business School and c-author of The Knowing-Doing GapGroundbreaking…Will upend people’s assumptions about how productive they can actually be…Here Jeff Sutherland discloses to the non-tech world the elegantly simple process that programmers and Web developers have been using since he invented Scrum, showing how a small, empowered, and dedicated team can deliver significantly higher quality work at a faster pace through introspection, iteration, and adaptation.
—— Michael Mangi, Senior V.P. of Interactive Technology, Social@OgilvyThis book will change the way you do everything. Even better, it will help you feel good in the process. Just read it, and get more done.
—— Arnold V. Strong, CEO of BrightNeighbor.com, and Colonel, US Army ReserveThis deceptively simple system is the most powerful way I've seen to improve the effectiveness of any team. I started using it with my business and family halfway through reading the book.
—— Leo Babauta, creator of Zen HabitsA rip-roaring read.
—— People ManagementEvery manager should read it.
—— Scottish Business InsiderMakes you rethink the fundamentals of successful management.
—— Flight TimeWhether you’re building schools in a third world country, teaching a classroom full of elementary students, or building websites, Scrum is highly effective because it matches many of the instincts that drive human nature; as Sutherland put it in his book, “Happiness is not complacent. It is a process, not a result.”
—— SpeckyboyIf there was a Nobel Prize for management, and if there was any justice in the world, I believe that the prize would be awarded, among others, to Jeff Sutherland, Ken Schwaber and Mike Cohn for their contributions to the invention of Scrum.
—— Forbes magazine