John Tropman – författare

Team Impact: Achieving Twice as Much in Half the Time draws on extensive contemporary research to explore what it takes to be a great manager and create effective, impactful teams. It features material generated by the Meeting Masters Research Project, an ongoing effort at the University of Michigan.The book addresses the wide range of teams within organizations, ranging from governance teams to those devoted to specific projects. Readers learn about running team meetings and managing decisions within them, and using the Agenda Bell, which graphs energy over time, to place items on the agenda. Team Impact also introduces the menu agenda structure to facilitate the flow of information, and the concept of high-quality decisions as the sign of impact. Each chapter includes exercises that allow students to immediately apply what they have learned.Research-based and rooted in qualitative methods, Team Impact is an ideal instructional tool for courses in management, leadership, and organizational development. Its accessible tone and style also make it appropriate for any organization, from condominium boards to school committees, to social groups, seeking to improve the quality and effectiveness of the meeting experience.

Leadership and Management of Policy Ideas: Turning Crazy Wisdom into Effective Programs underscores the importance of idea generation, curation, and implementation across organizations. The book recognizes the lack of conceptual capital currency in many organizations and offers readers the knowledge they need to inspire ideation and transform winning ideas into effective policies.The book is organized into three parts. Part addresses the nature and components of ideas and policy. Part 2 then examines the common hurdles that obstruct the progression of good ideas into effective policy. The final part offers practical tools and methodologies for overseeing the evolution from idea to policy, underscoring the necessity for competent leadership and management in guiding this process. An appendix provides some policy vignettes for classroom or team discussion.Designed to assist students, practitioners, and scholars of public policy, organizational leadership, and management, Leadership and Management of Policy Ideas posits that idea management is fundamental to organizational success. The textbook is ideal for policy analysis, strategic management, and organizational behavior courses.

Fixing Broken Meetings: A Manual on Meeting Rotten-osity, Deleterious Decisions, and Ineffective Implementation examines the myriad ways in which meetings regularly fail and how individuals and organizations can improve them through a model of identification, ideation, decision-making, implementation, and evaluation.The collection is organized into eight parts, each featuring an opening description of a cartoon, summaries of articles and books, and links to longer pieces. Opening parts contain humorous material that illustrates the pattern of making fun of meetings and disparaging their utility; discussions related to decision-making; and coping strategies. Readers discover helpful tips for producing efficient meetings and building effective decisions. They learn about decision avoidance psychosis and examine why we, at all levels of the social organization, accept a flawed system that embraces meetings with latent functions. Closing parts cite valuable practices developed by the Meeting Masters and Decision Maestros and consider common issues related to implementation and evaluation.An innovative and essential guide for the modern workplace, Fixing Broken Meetings is an exemplary resource for courses and programs in business and organizational behavior, as well as anyone interested in improving the functionality of meetings within their organization.