The Rocket Model: Practical Advice for Building High Performing Teams
This book rocks!The Rocket Modelis an easy to use diagnostic and team improvement framework that leaders at all levels can embrace and use every day. The practical application is immediate, profound and long lasting. It fosters continuous improvement and equips leaders to assess their teams, improve team dynamics and then replicate the process again and again. At Waste Management, we trained over 1,000 District Managers on how to use this model and saw immediate improvements in team effectiveness and employee engagement. This is a tool you don t want to miss out on!----Jimmy LaValleySenior Vice President and Chief PeopleOfficer, Waste Management, Inc., (Retired)Rule one of Leadership - you are only as strong as your talent and team! But how do you find the right people and build a high performing team? Maybe for Napoleon it was innate, for the majority of us it is not. I have used the model outlined in this book to assess and build my teams and reassess them to evaluate performance and make improvements. The exceptional results we have been able to achieve speak for themselves.----Mark RoelligExecutive Vice President and General CounselMassMutual Financial GroupIn today's world of globally distributed teams it has become particularly difficult to build high performing teams.The Rocket Modelis the most amazing tool a leader can use to address this problem. I have use the model several times in my career; working with teams located in 11 different offices spread over three continents, five countries, and a maximum time lag of 11 1/2 hours. The model is straightforward and the results predictable. I can highly recommend it to everyone who manages teams in competitive environments.--Walter AngererSenior Vice President & General Manager of Data ProtectionQuest Software