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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln 352 reviews
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Simon & Schuster, 2006
A Unique Look at a Presidential Administration
Abraham Lincoln's political life has been the subject of many books. Yet with Team of Rivals Doris Kearns Goodwin provides a unique and provactive look.
Much of what she covers is familiar. Yet this book is more than another Lincoln biography. It is a multi-faceted reviewof the entire team of personal and political competitors that he assembled to lead the country through its greatest ...
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Wisdom of Teams 18 reviews
Jon R. Katzenbach
McGraw-Hill Professional, 2005
How to form high-performance teams
What's nice about Jon R. Katzenbach and Douglas K. Smith's book is their willingness to name the truth. They know that everyone pays lip service to teams, but few people act like they truly value teams - and fewer still actually know how teams really work. The authors point out where the hype lies and what it is hiding. Then they go a step farther. They provide a manual for creating what ...
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Team-Building Activities for Every Group 21 reviews
Alanna Jones
Rec Room Publishing, 2000
The best activity book
I'm a peer facilitator, and this is definitely the best group activity book that I've used. I've always gotten the best response from the activities in this book...they seem to be the most fun for the kids to do, while still teaching important lessons. The book is also very easy to read and understand.
My fellow Peer facilitators and I have about 25 different activity books to choose from, and ...
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Travel Team67 reviews
Mike Lupica
Puffin, 2005
K. Cox's book review
Travel Team by Mike Lupica is an exciting book about a twelve year old boy named Danny. Danny is a very good basketball player who has been cut from his team because he is too short. Danny and his father form their own team from the other children who were cut and have a shot at beating the Vikings.
Travel Team is a very exciting and funny book. The only with the book is that it used some ...
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The Big Book of Team Building Games: Trust-Building Activities, Team Spirit Exercises, and Other Fun Things ... 20 reviews
John W. Newstrom, Edward E. Scannell
McGraw-Hill, 1997
Superb resource book
I had this series of books before - loaned them out at work and never got them back (go figure!). Happy to have found them again here.
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Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Field Guide for Leaders, Managers, and Facilitators 21 reviews
Patrick M. Lencioni
Jossey-Bass, 2005
Easy to use and very helpful
This field guide is extremely useful for working with teams - from dysfunctional teams to those that are running smoothly. The exercises are practical and get to the heart of team dysfunctions.
I am a pastor who also works in the corporate world. I will use the ideas and exercises in this book with teams in the office and in the church.
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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable208 reviews
Patrick M. Lencioni
Jossey-Bass, 2002
Great Book!
I had to read this book for a class of mine and fortunately I loved it. The lessons are told through fictional characters; however, it's easy to see how the dysfunctions can apply towards your own teams.
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Quick Team-Building Activities for Busy Managers: 50 Exercises That Get Results in Just 15 Minutes27 reviews
Brian Cole Miller
AMACOM, 2003
Quick Team Building Activities
Wonderful book. A lot of clever ideas. This book saves me in a pinch when I have time left over after my office meetings. I can just pull out the book and play a moral game with the staff. The book is an easy read and organized well with ideas.
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Torture Team: Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values8 reviews
Philippe Sands
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
MASTERFUL,TRAGIC, AND DEPRESSING
This case is closed. Phillipe Sands has executed an extraordinary work of investigation and reporting. I was constantly amazed by the statements of individuals so intimately involved in the process. There is dark criminality here, and it is truly depressing to know that our post 9/11 trauma and fear has been so successfully exploited that the perpetrators acted with impunity. History will show ...
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The 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player: Becoming the Kind of Person Every Team Wants21 reviews
John C. Maxwell
Thomas Nelson, 2006
Great book to use to facilitate team discussion
I used the 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player as a book to use for team discussions affirming or confirming how the team would operate. The chapters are a quick read and the qualities described supporting a successful and harmonious workplace cover most required behaviors of a good team member.
While John Maxwell's material is mostly from non-profit experiences, the stories and quotes ...
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Building Conflict Competent Teams (J-B CCL (Center for Creative Leadership))
Craig E. Runde, Tim A. Flanagan
Jossey-Bass, 2008
Understanding how to cool down, slow down, and engage the naturally occurring conflicts among team members is critical to the ultimate success of a team. Patrick Lencioni, author of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team , describes this book as, “…A comprehensive, thoroughly researched guide to the crucial and inevitable role conflict plays on a team.” By reading this book, teams and team members will gain a deeper understanding ...
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Doing Church As A Team7 reviews
Wayne Cordeiro
Regal Books, 2005
Doing Church as a Team
Pastor Wayne captures the essence of Ephesians Chapter Four and the heart of effective ministry that is "gift based" and driven by volunteers rather than paid professionals. The key to the book is that God has placed gifts, dreams and abilities in each person and they must be seen as valuable. Release those dreams and passions and with very little motivation these people will serve and become a ...
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Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon (Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12 ...10 reviews
Catherine Thimmesh
Houghton Mifflin, 2006
Will use this in class.
I will use this book in my middle school curriculum when I teach about space. When I showed it to students, they pretty much just looked at the pictures. After they watched "Apollo 13" it made a lot more sense to them. Then they wanted to understand more about the technology available at the time. This book makes a great companion piece to "The Right Stuff" and "The Dish" as well. If you are ...
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The One Minute Manager Builds High Performing Teams11 reviews
Ken Blanchard, Eunice Parisi-carew, ...
William Morrow, 1991
all books should be like this one
Short, straight-to-the point, wise book. This is exactly what I needed for increasing the productivity of the team I manage.
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Appreciative Team Building: Positive Questions to Bring Out the Best of Your Team3 reviews
Diana Whitney, Amanda Trosten-Bloom, ...
iUniverse, Inc., 2004
Appreciative Team Building : Positive Questions to Bring Out the Best of Your Team (Paperback)
The book was fabulous! I found it really helpful - it is conceptually right on and it is a great and useful tool - Bottom line it fires up both sides of my brain!
Susan Copple
HR Director
Hewlett Packard Company
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X-teams: How to Build Teams That Lead, Innovate and Succeed7 reviews
Deborah Ancona, Henrik Bresman
Harvard Business School Press, 2007
Excellent book!
X-Teams is great book for those who participate on or manage any type of team within the corporate environment. The theme is that successful teams spend more time externally focused rather than internally focused on their team itself. The last 1/3 of the book are very practical tools and tips for establishing and managing successful teams. These are concepts learned from countless interviews ...
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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: Participant Workbook
Patrick M. Lencioni
Pfeiffer, 2007
Based on Patrick Lencioni ’s extraordinarily successful leadership fable The Five Dysfunctions of a Team , this Participants Workbook outlines Lencioni’s powerful model and the actionable steps that can be used to overcome five common problems that may prevent your team from performing at its best: 1. Absence of Trust 2. Fear of Conflict 3. Lack of Commitment 4. Avoidance ...
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More Quick Team-Building Activities for Busy Managers: 50 New Exercises That Get Results in Just 15 Minutes2 reviews
Brian Cole Miller
AMACOM, 2007
Great follow-up, with one added bonus
This book is similar to Miller's first book of teambuilding activities. Once again, all the activities are quick, easy to manage and require few props. Even though I really liked his first book and go to it frequently, I was a bit reluctant to pick this second one up, fearing that maybe these activities weren't on par with the first volume. I was wrong. They are every bit as fun and effective ...
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Professional Team Foundation Server3 reviews
Jean-Luc David, Mickey Gousset, ...
Wrox, 2006
A View of Team Server from the Management Aspect
There are a lot of books on Microsoft's Studio Team System that are written from the standpoint of the developer involved with a team development project. These books seem to be lacking the first forty pages or so. That is, they don't explain just what it is that you are trying to do, how to set up a development team, how to administer the Team System software.
It turns out that there's a lot ...
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Senior Leadership Teams: What It Takes to Make Them Great (Center for Public Leadership)
Ruth Wageman, Debra A. Nunes, ...
Harvard Business School Press, 2008
An organization's fate hinges on its CEO--right? Not according to the authors of Senior Leadership Teams. They argue that in today's world of neck-snapping change, demands on leaders in top roles are rapidly outdistancing the capabilities of any one person--no matter how talented. Result? Chief executives are turning to their enterprise's senior leaders for help. Yet many CEOs stumble when creating a leadership team. One major challenge is that ...
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