Unbreakable: Building and Leading Resilient Teams

Managers and leaders must build resilient teams in turbulent times to respond to adversity. Bradley L. Kirkman and Adam C. Stoverink's new book provides practical tips for building and leading resilient teams equipped to bounce back from challenges. Four team resources are essential to any resilient team: team confidence, teamwork roadmaps, capacity to improvise, and psychological safety. Leaders can grow these resources in their own teams, whether in-person, remote, or hybrid.

Format: Hardback
Length: 202 pages
Publication date: 28 February 2023
Publisher: Stanford University Press

As a result of global economic changes, new technologies, and increased competition, business environments are becoming increasingly turbulent and unpredictable, requiring new forms of resilient work teams.

Due in part to the increasing complexity of business environments, more and more organizations worldwide are using teams of employees to respond to adversity. Whether it be new product development teams, business crisis response teams in companies, front-line response teams such as fire, emergency medical technicians, or emergency room teams, research and development teams, or pharmaceutical development teams, employees can no longer rely on their own knowledge, skills, and abilities to get their work done. Rather, employees have to work collaboratively with one another and combine their expertise to achieve the synergy and breakthrough thinking that is necessary to be successful at completing complex tasks in today's dynamic environments.

Today, more than ever before, work teams must demonstrate resilience. In the face of volatile, complex, and ambiguous business environments, all teams inevitably suffer setbacks. Bradley L. Kirkman and Adam C. Stoverink provide in their new book the hands-on practical tips for building and leading resilient teams equipped to bounce back from those challenges. They highlight four team resources that are essential to any resilient team, including: team confidence, teamwork roadmaps, capacity to improvise, and psychological safety. These four resources are brought to life through compelling stories of teams that performed well in the face of adversity—and a few that didn't. They also provide leaders with step-by-step guidance for how to grow the.

Weight: 480g
Dimension: 159 x 237 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781503629301