Hot groups
Subtitle: seeding them, feeding them, and using them to ignite your organization
By: Jean Lipman-Blumen, Harold J. Leavitt.
Contributors: Leavitt, Harold J.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
Subjects: Organizational effectiveness; Group decision making; Industrial efficiency
Description: A hot group is not a name for a newfangled team, task force, or committee. Rather, a hot group is defined by a distinctive state of mind coupled with a style of behavior that is intense and sharply focused on its ultimate goal. Stretching themselves beyond their own expectations, members of a hot group plunge into enterprises that have the potential to change, even ennoble, their own and others' lives.

Still, Lipman-Blumen and Leavitt recognize the risks inherent in loosening an organization's structural soil enough to accommodate these groups. Consequently, they address such issues as how to provide the kind of leadership required by a hot group, how to mesh a hot group with the regimented structure of the overall corporation, how managers can encourage new hot groups, and how best to cope with an overheated hot group.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-290) and index.