Mining Group Gold: How to Cash in on the Collaborative Brain Power of a Group

Mining Group Gold is a book on leadership. It explores the process of managing people and ideas to achieve a high level of results in a complex, turbulent global economy. This book is a practical, easy to use guide to building and maintaining collaboration within and across teams.

Includes:

Five steps for planning and conducting a successful group session
Suggestions for dealing with feelings and emotions, as well as conflict and confusion, during a session

Options for enhancing the productivity of the middle of a meeting more

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From: Amazon
Posted: Oct-23-2006

Golden Ideas for Mining Gold from Your Groups

This is really as much a book about effective leadership and management as it is about group facilitation. Solidly grounded in the author's experience at Xerox, it teaches everything needed to make your group sessions far more effective than it currently is. It also includes guidesheets, tables...

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Posted: Sep-05-2001

Mining Group Gold

I read Tom Kayser's book in the early 1990's when it was originally written for Xerox. The new edition is a fine adaptation. The book has been immensely helpful to me as a facilitator. It gives great instructions to a new and experienced group leader.Mr. Kayser understands group dynamics. By...

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Posted: Jul-01-1999

Treasure Trove of Productivity

One of the most valuable lessons I learned in my brief time as a researcher at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center was that meetings need not be unending wastes of times. When I first noticed this and asked how it was possible that so much always seemed to get done, no mater who was involved, I...

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Posted: Jun-04-1999

Tap the Mother Lode of Collaborative Cranial Creativity

Thomas A. Kayser has set forth a systematic means for gaining the maximum benefit from meetings.Starting with John Kenneth Gailbraith's infamous attribilious amphigory: "Meetings are vital to those who want to make sure nothing happens" Kayser leads the reader through the labyrinth of...

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Posted: Jan-06-1999

most important book about making teams effective available

I have used what I learned by reading Mining Group Gold in a wide variety of consulting and operational settings over the past three years: with multi-functional teams in a medium sized data communications high technology company and a start-up software development company, with the board of...

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Posted: Oct-28-1998

Outstanding reference for making meetings more productive.

The entire book is an outstanding reference for improving meetings. Just the agenda portion has helped our company improve the quality of meetings 100%. From planning through execution, Mining Group Gold gives you all of the steps necessary to hold productive, meaningful meetings. A must read...

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