Most teams underperform. Yours can beat the odds.

If you need the best practices and ideas for superior team building--but don't have time to find them--this book is for you. Here are 10 inspiring and useful perspectives, all in one place.

This collection of HBR articles will help you:

- Boost team performance through mutual accountability

- Motivate large, diverse groups to tackle complex projects

- Increase groups' emotional intelligence

- Reverse the fortunes of a struggling team

- Prevent decision deadlock

- Extract results from a bunch of touchy superstars

- Fight constructively with top-management colleagues

- Ensure productivity in far-flung teams