Soundview to Publish Summary of A Team of Leaders by Paul Gustavson & Stewart Liff

PHILADELPHIA - June 18, 2014 - PRLog -- With emphasis on the design of a team, A Team of Leaders offers a new way to energize groups of employees and improve performance. Authors Paul Gustavson and Stewart Liff present the Five-Stage Team Development Model, which outlines a set of characteristics of traditional teams and the progression to creating teams of people who think and act like leaders. By improving the core design components - the systems, processes, knowledge, management and visual management - teams will take responsibility for delivering better results. Learn more at http://www.summary.com/book-summaries/_/A-Team-Of-Leaders.

Paul W. Gustavson is a leading management consultant specializing in strategy and organization design, business process improvement, leadership development, the design of high performance teams and work systems, change management and knowledge management. Paul specializes in helping organizations develop a clear and compelling differentiating strategy.  Then helps them identify and prioritize those processes necessary to deliver their strategy. Finally he helps them align their organization's structures and various systems to the organization’s processes and strategy.

Stewart Liff is an award-winning human resource executive, author, advisor, teacher, and artist. Stew is one of the world’s foremost proponents of using visual displays to connect employees to the mission and for sharing performance information with the workforce.

He started Stewart Liff & Associates, Inc. to pursue his passion to share his unique approach to performance management, which combines the visual arts with performance management called Visual Performance Management, help organizations design and implement extraordinary Human Resource Management (HRM) programs and develop high-performing self-managed teams.

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