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Team Players and Teamwork: The New Competitive Business Strategy (Jossey-Bass Business & Management Series) - Softcover

Parker, Glenn M.

 
9780787901851: Team Players and Teamwork: The New Competitive Business Strategy (Jossey-Bass Business & Management Series)

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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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

GLENN M. PARKER is president of Glenn M. Parker Associates, a consulting firm based in Lawrenceville, New Jersey specializing in human resource and organizational development. His clients have included companies such as AT&T, Johnson & Johnson, NYNEX, Bristol-Meyers Squibb, 3M, Allied Signal, and Sun Microsystems. He is the author of Cross-Functional Teams (Jossey-Bass, 1994) as well as additional books and team-building tools.

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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.

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Explores the important role of the individual team member in making teamwork an effective way to do business. Highlights four different kinds of players essential to the success of any team. Shows how to recognize the different kinds of team player, meld diverse members into a cohesive team, and encourage the most productive contribution from each type.

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