The Orange Revolution, Chester Elton
The Orange Revolution, Chester Elton
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The Orange Revolution
How One Great Team Can Transform an Entire Organization

Author: Chester Elton, Adrian Gostick

Narrator: Chester Elton, Adrian Gostick

Unabridged: 7 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/29/2010


Synopsis

Following the enormous popularity of their bestselling The Carrot Principle, Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton return with a groundbreaking guide to building high-performance teams. The powerful research reported in The Orange Revolution reveals that the true driver of exceptional success for great companies is not a genius CEO. Breakthrough success is driven by a particular breed of breakthrough team that generates its own momentum—a harmonious group of colleagues in the trenches, working passionately together to pursue a shared vision and leading their whole company to a new level. Yet the research also shows that less than twenty percent of teams are working anywhere near their optimal capacity.

Based on their extraordinary experience working with leading companies, including Zappos.com, Pepsi Bottling Group, and Madison Square Garden, as well as on a never-before-published 350,000-person study by the Best Companies Group—which issues the Best Places to Work list—Gostick and Elton reveal the five vital characteristics of these great teams and provide a powerful step-by-step prescription for building them. Through remarkable stories from organizations that have used these methods to take teams to the breakthrough level, they show exactly how to ignite the passion and vision to bring about an Orange Revolution.

About Chester Elton

Chester Elton is vice president of performance at the O. C. Tanner Company and a popular public speaker. He has been the subject of feature articles in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, and has spoken on the subject of employee recognition and motivation on ABC, CNBC, and NPR. He is coauthor, with Adrian Gostick, of the Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek bestseller A Carrot a Day and The 24-Carrot Manager.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Lucas on March 05, 2011

Loved it. Characteristics of the best managers 1) Goal setting (knowing where you are going) 2) Communication (wise use of your voice and ears) 3) Trust (believing in others and being trustworthy) 4) Accountability (doing what you say you will do) 5) Recognition (appreciating others' strengths) The rule of......more

Goodreads review by Donovan on April 02, 2011

I loved this book! I think what made it especially good was I read it with my fabulous team and it cemented with research (350,000 people) what I have always believed - that success comes mainly from teams. It summed up a and put into words a number of leadership ideas that I've had in my mind for y......more

Goodreads review by Matt on April 07, 2018

This was a great read. It wasn't a read that I kept telling myself I couldn't put down, though. While the text is definitely geared toward the business world, creative thinking throughout your reading will allow the reader to adapt the concepts to any organization. I think that is why I had to read......more

Goodreads review by Emily on March 12, 2023

A book with lots of practical tips for team unity and achieving as a team.......more

Goodreads review by Gene on September 02, 2022

This is a book about carrots, the authors' catchphrase for employee recognition. In particular, the term "Orange" is used to describe the overall characteristics, rules and behaviors of great teams. Leaders of Orange Teams that achieve enhanced business results are generally seen as stronger in the f......more