Team Players and Teamwork: The New Competitive Business Strategy - Couverture rigide

Parker, Glenn M.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1555422578 ISBN 13 : 9781555422578

Editeur : Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S., 1990

Synopsis

This book explores the important role of the individual team member in making teamwork an effective way to do business. Highlighting four different types of players essential to the success of any team, it shows how to recognize types of players, meld diverse members into a cohesive team and encourage the most productive contribution from each type at different points in the team's development. This book is based on a survey of 51 successful companies' experience with teams.

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Quatrième de couverture

Scores of studies document the success of teams in today′s workplace. Countless books describe the inspirational leaders who created them. But the most valuable unit of every team––the team player––remains a mystery. Only Glenn M. Parker addresses the most fundamental question: What makes a good team player?Team Players and Teamwork is a practical, essential guide for leaders and team members who want to maintain their competitive advantage. In the first study of its kind, Glenn Parker, one of the top team trainers in the United States, addresses the important question, "What makes a good team player??and identifies the four critical members necessary for an effective, dynamic team: contributors, collaborators, communicators, and challengers.Parker draws on stories of more than fifty team–driven organizations including Xerox, Honeywell, Pratt and Witney, and General Motors, to show how the right balance of styles creates a productive group whose members support, challenge, and inspire one another to achieve stellar results.

Présentation de l'éditeur

A quick, clear way to learn about teamwork, with a useful framework for identifying critical roles of team players.
––Peter Block

This handbook will help you focus on what makes a good team player. It draws on stories of more than fifty team–driven organizations?including Xerox, Honeywell, General Motors, and 3M?to give you proven evidence of the qualities of high performing teams.

You′ll discover:

• Four styles of team players critical to an effective, dynamic team
• The right balance of styles to create a productive team
• How to get team members to support, challenge, and inspire one another to achieve stellar results
• A useful framework for identifying team roles

Here′s a practical guide for your team leaders and members who need to maintain their competitive advantage through teamwork.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 1990
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1555422578
• ISBN 13: 9781555422578
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 178
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible