videos
Teams and Organizational Change
This video demonstrates the power of teams to restructure any business for
better performance and the challenges in developing teams.
Magma Metals scrapped its entire management structure and reorganized around
teams. The Ritz-Carlton saw a hastily launched team push turnover to 150
percent. Sealed Air Corp. organized self-managed work teams with very satisfactory
results.
Expert commentary from Jon Katzenbach and Douglas Smith reinforces the vital
roles of management and front-line employees in fashioning effective teams
that can drive enduring structural change.
This 40-minute video is a first-rate production. It will appeal to a wide
segment of management and other employees.
Meeting Robbers
This is a remake of one of CRM's classics. In the old version, yesterday's
technology was obvious-for example: typewriters, a film projector and smokers.
Typewriters are out and E-mail is in. And the new version incorporates a
diverse work force.
Meeting robbers are well-meaning people who really care about their work.
But unless their energies are directed by a well-prepared meeting leader,
they can steal time, money and creative resources without even trying. This
amusing 20-minute video shows the seven most wanted robbers at work. See
them in a cross-functional meeting that loses 35 hours of company time before
the meeting leader himself is arrested and learns how to make meetings theft-proof.
CRM has taken an already great film and made it even better.
The View From the Top: Steering Ford to Superior Quality
Ex-Ford Chairman Harold "Red" Poling is interviewed by Hedrick
Smith during this 30-minute video. Poling reveals the strategies he used
to guarantee that quality became more than just a slogan at Ford.
Standoffs between management and labor have long been a way of life in the
auto industry. Poling's move to curb this necessitated cultural changes
to promote quality improvement and work-force harmony. His determination
eventually broke down much of the resistance that led to this unfortunate
standoff. For example, on his plant visits, his first meeting was with both
plant management and union leaders.
The View From the Top is a 10-video collection, originally prepared as a
four-hour series on the Public Broadcasting System ($149 each or $1,349
for all 10).
More Bloody Meetings (Revised)
This revised edition matches the original quite closely. But many subtle
differences distinguish the new from the old. For example, the original
had a "torture chambers" sequence. This is gone. The office typewriters
are gone. The vests are gone. This version also includes a more diverse
work force.
John Cleese is caught in his own courtroom nightmare, accused of bungling
the human side of meeting dynamics. Cleese is brought up on three charges:
failure to control the meeting, failure to keep the meeting on track, and
failure to allow everyone to contribute.
The evidence? Flashbacks from recent meetings, all mismanaged. When the
judge reviews the facts, Cleese is once again found guilty.
Used on its own or with its companion title, More Bloody Meetings is sure
to benefit both veteran and novice meeting leaders.
