The book · Contents

Notes on leading high-performing teams.

Fifteen years of leading teams, distilled into a book written without filler.

Notes on leading high-performing teams
  1. Chapter 01

    Objectives

    Leadership, motivation, and the difference between tasks, responsibilities and results.

    • 1.1Leadership and objectives
    • 1.2High-performing teams
    • 1.3The path of development
    • 1.4How demanding should you be?
    • 1.5Short- and long-term objectives
    • 1.6Defining objectives: tasks, responsibilities or results?
    • 1.7Autonomy
    • 1.8Motivation
    • 1.9Two-dimensional objectives
    • 1.10Objectives and strategy
  2. Chapter 02

    The Team

    How a team is built, developed, and —when needed— taken apart.

    • 2.1Team structure
    • 2.2Recruiting
    • 2.3Development
    • 2.4Promotions and rotations
    • 2.5Letting people go
    • 2.6When to retain
  3. Chapter 03

    Performance

    Planning, executing, and analyzing. And the individual side of a leader's work.

    • 3.1Stage I: Planning
    • 3.2Stage II: Execution
    • 3.3Communication, key to execution
    • 3.4Stage III: Analysis
    • 3.5Individual performance
    • 3.6The soft skills of leadership
    • 3.7The administrative side of leadership
  4. Chapter 04

    Culture

    What culture is, how it's built, and three cases worth looking at closely.

    • 4.1Definition and structure of culture
    • 4.2Creating culture
    • 4.3Elements that generate culture
    • 4.4Cultural values of high performance
    • 4.5The IBM case
    • 4.6The Zappos case
    • 4.7The case of the friends Lemann, Telles and Sicupira
  5. Chapter 05

    Self-Development

    The work on yourself: reflection, study, career and life decisions.

    • 5.1Reflecting on execution
    • 5.2Interactions with other colleagues
    • 5.3Studying courses and other content
    • 5.4Our own career path
    • 5.5To start a company or not
    • 5.6Personal life and work life