The book · Contents
Notes on leading high-performing teams.
Fifteen years of leading teams, distilled into a book written without filler.

- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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