Hot Groups: Seeding Them, Feeding Them, and Using Them to Ignite Your Organization

Synopsis of Hot Groups: Seeding Them, Feeding Them, and Using Them to Ignite Your Organization

«Hot Groups: Seeding Them, Feeding Them, and Using Them to Ignite Your Organization» is the management and leadership essay by Jean Lipman-Blumen and Harold J. Leavitt, published by OUP USA in hardback (320 pages, in English).

The book explains the phenomenon of «hot groups», teams that achieve a mental state and behaviour intensely focused on a goal and deliver extraordinary results. The authors analyse how they emerge, how they are led and how they can be integrated into rigid corporate structures, with cases such as the original Macintosh team, the series «Hill Street Blues» or Kennedy's crisis group during the Cuban missile crisis, and include practical guidance for managers to seed and feed these groups.

Includes a foreword by Tom Peters and a first edition published in 1999 by Oxford University Press. The copy corresponds to the hardback edition of 320 pages.

Recommended for managers, team leaders and professionals interested in group dynamics, leadership and innovation within organisations.