Portfolio Business Models For Teams

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There are multiple reasons that this is an extremely important book on how organizations work and how to maximize the productivity of the teams in them. I have chosen five of those reasons to describe in this review.First, it was co-created by 225 professionals from 38 countries. You get a global perspective regarding how to generate positive organizational results.Second, the book provides dozens of real examples from around the world to support the points that have been made. You meet real people who tell their real organizational success stories.Third, the authors “focus on using business models to better serve internal customers. This is operations. Operations is where most people work.” The approach to using these business models is 1. Participants draw personal business models. 2. Participants define their model. 3. Participants map individual contributions onto their team’s model.A foundational part of the learning in this book regards how to create The Business Model Canvas that includes Key Partners and Key Activities as two of the nine elements central to creating impactful teamwork. The author’s and contributors show you, using pictures and graphics and explanations devoid of jargon, exactly how the process works. The nine elements cover all aspects of business operations required to gain positive results from the work of your team.The authors discuss the rationale for their use of graphics and visuals and pictures and the Business Model Canvas this way, “To get people to understand and follow a strategy, it must 1) be explained in easily understood terms, and 2) guide actual behavior.” The charts and visuals in this book make it much easier to accomplish that than if it was a typical business book that is mostly words. The authors further explain this focus when they write, “There is nothing wrong with words of course. But words alone cannot handle the task of explaining or understanding a complex multi-dimensional system such as an organization.”Fourth, this book is extremely practical and actionable. This is not a professor in an ivory tower postulating deep thoughts. These are leaders in a variety of organizations from around the world showing you exactly how they created the kind of change necessary to be successful. The book begins with Defining Your Team’s Why. By page 17 you have drafted your team’s Why Statement. To help you start teambuilding, each chapter in this book ends with Things to Try on Monday Morning.Fifth, any manager at any level can use the business models outlined so clearly in this book to help their team move forward effectively. The author’s state, “You may not be in a position to ensure organization-wide teaching of the enterprise model. But you may be in a position to define your own team’s business model and ensure that every member understands it – and more important, uses that team model to guide everyday action.”Bottom line, this book provides a powerful addition to organizational literature about team building and fills a gap regarding how that subject has been dealt with to date. I have been a leadership development consultant for over thirty years and have helped leaders on five continents improve the quality of the results of the teams they lead. This book comes with the highest possible recommendation.

Wonderful book. A must read for all the Entrepreneurs or if you are managing a team. Book delivered in good condition. Print is good, paper quality is good, nicely presented.

If you have read the other books and you work with the approach, than this book is a great further development. Its a pity that trainings are currently not offered in Europe, but the book is full of best practice and therefore helpful.It is absolutely worth reading it.