Synopses & Reviews
Following the enormous popularity of their bestselling
The Carrot Principle, Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton return with a groundbreaking guide to building high-performance teams. The powerful research reported in
The Orange Revolution reveals that the true driver of exceptional success for great companies is not a genius CEO. Breakthrough success is driven by a particular breed of breakthrough team that generates its own momentum—a harmonious group of colleagues in the trenches, working passionately together to pursue a shared vision and leading their whole company to a new level. Yet the research also shows that less than twenty percent of teams are working anywhere near their optimal capacity.
Based on their extraordinary experience working with leading companies, including Zappos.com, Pepsi Bottling Group, and Madison Square Garden, as well as on a never-before-published 350,000-person study by the Best Companies Group—which issues the Best Places to Work list—Gostick and Elton reveal the five vital characteristics of these great teams and provide a powerful step-by-step prescription for building them. Through remarkable stories from organizations that have used these methods to take teams to the breakthrough level, they show exactly how to ignite the passion and vision to bring about an Orange Revolution.
Synopsis
The bestselling authors of The Carrot Principle show how to use recognition techniques to build highly effective teams.
About the Author
Adrian Gostick is an award-winning business author who has written for USA Today, Investor's Business Daily, and other business publications, and whose books have been translated into twenty languages around the world. He is coauthor, with Chester Elton, of the Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek bestseller A Carrot a Day. He is director of corporate communications at the O. C. Tanner Company, the world's leading employee motivation firm. Chester Elton is vice president of performance at the O. C. Tanner Company and a popular public speaker. He has been the subject of feature articles in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, and has spoken on the subject of employee recognition and motivation on ABC, CNBC, and NPR. He is coauthor, with Adrian Gostick, of the Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek bestseller A Carrot a Day and The 24-Carrot Manager. Adrian Gostick is an award-winning business author who has written for USA Today, Investor's Business Daily, and other business publications, and whose books have been translated into twenty languages around the world. He is coauthor, with Chester Elton, of the Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek bestseller A Carrot a Day. He is director of corporate communications at the O. C. Tanner Company, the world's leading employee motivation firm. Chester Elton is vice president of performance at the O. C. Tanner Company and a popular public speaker. He has been the subject of feature articles in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, and has spoken on the subject of employee recognition and motivation on ABC, CNBC, and NPR. He is coauthor, with Adrian Gostick, of the Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek bestseller A Carrot a Day and The 24-Carrot Manager.