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'DNA' of High-Performing Workgroups Revealed in Global Study Global standard for high performance, practical steps for achieving sustainable, profitable growth detailed in major new management book NEW YORK, Aug. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- WHAT: Contagious Success: Spreading High Performance Throughout Your Organization (Portfolio, 2004), a dynamic new business book based on the most comprehensive global study of what drives high performance ever completed. The book reveals the fastest, most effective way for companies to achieve profitable growth: increasing the performance of an organization's best workgroups, and sharing the secrets of these groups with the "almost theres" - those workgroups in the middle of the pack. Too many organizations focus on minimizing failure by eliminating or improving low-performing groups, rather than spreading success. WHY: Many companies have already right-sized, cut costs, improved efficiency, and flattened the org chart. Yet profitable and sustainable growth remains elusive. Susan Lucia Annunzio and her team undertook a worldwide study of more than 3,000 knowledge workers, seeking the factors that accelerate or inhibit high performance in their workgroups. The shocking news is that only 10 percent of all workgroups in the study qualify as high performing. Annunzio's big insight- supported by the groundbreaking research- is that the characteristics that drive high performance in these groups are the same around the world and can be replicated using internal resources. WHEN: Available upon request are interviews with the author, advanced galley copies of the book and press materials. The book will be available in bookstores November 8, 2004. (More information can be found at http://www.contagious-success.com/.) WHO: Contagious Success author Susan Lucia Annunzio, chairman and CEO of the Hudson Highland Center for High Performance, a subsidiary of Hudson Highland Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:HHGPNASDAQ: NASDAQ:http://www.hhgroup.com), can provide insights on: * Characteristics of high-performing groups * Why the workgroup is critical * Creating high-performance companies * How leaders "protect" their groups from company interference * "Moving the middle" for radical results * Companies that exemplify high performance DATASOURCE: Hudson Highland Group CONTACT: Greg Carlisle of Hudson Highland Group, +1-312-795-4289, ; or Vicky Nurre of Ogilvy Public Relations, +1-312-397-6002, , for Hudson Highland Group Web site: http://www.hhgroup.com/ http://www.contagious-success.com/

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