What is the true driver of a thriving organization’s exceptional
success? Is it a genius leader? An iron-clad business plan? Gostick and
Elton shatter these preconceptions of corporate achievement. Their
research shows that breakthrough success is guided by a particular breed
of high-performing team that generates its own momentum—an engaged
group of colleagues in the trenches, working passionately together to
pursue a shared vision. Their research also shows that only 20 percent
of teams are working anywhere near this optimal capacity. How can your
team become one of them?

Based on a groundbreaking
350,000-person study by the Best Companies Group, as well as
extraordinary research into exceptional teams at leading companies,
including Zappos.com, Pepsi Beverages Company, and Madison Square
Garden, the authors have determined a key set of characteristics
displayed by members of breakthrough teams, and have identified a set of
rules great teams live by, which generate a culture of positive
teamwork and lead to extraordinary results.

Using a wealth of
specific stories from the breakthrough teams they studied, they reveal
in detail how these teams operate and how managers can transform their
own teams into such high performers by fostering:

-Stronger clarity of goals
-Greater trust among team members
-More open and honest dialogue
-Stronger accountability for all team members
-Purpose-based recognition of team members’ contributions


The remarkable stories they tell about these teams in action provide a
simple and powerful step-by-step guide to taking your team to the
breakthrough level, igniting the passion and vision to bring about an
Orange Revolution.