Building and maintaining a successful team is no simple task. Even people who have taken their teams to the highest level in their field have difficulty recreating what accounted for their successes. Is it a strong work ethic? Is it “chemistry”? What tools can you wrap your hands around to build-or rebuild-your team? In The [...]
Four US Navy SEALS departed one clear night in early July, 2005 for the mountainous Afghanistan-Pakistan border for a reconnaissance mission. Their task was to document the activity of an al Qaeda leader rumored to have a small army in a Taliban stronghold. Five days later, only one of those Navy SEALS made it out [...]
Four US Navy SEALS departed one clear night in early July 2005 for the mountainous Afghanistan-Pakistan border for a reconnaissance mission. Their task was to document the activity of an al Qaeda leader rumored to be very close to Bin Laden with a small army in a Taliban stronghold. Five days later, only one of [...]
Chapter 1 Team and Team Building Chapter 2 Team Functions Chapter 3 Team Effectiveness Chapter 4 Understanding Group Behavior In An Organization Chapter 5 Team Dynamics Chapter 6 Group Development / Stages of Group’s Formation Chapter 7 Types of Groups Chapter 8 Turning Groups Into Effective Teams Chapter 1 Team and Team Building Chapter [...]
The Energy Bus, an international best seller by Jon Gordon, takes readers on an enlightening and inspiring ride that reveals 10 secrets for approaching life and work with the kind of positive, forward thinking that leads to true accomplishment – at work and at home. Jon infuses this engaging story with keen insights as he [...]
A Victorian Police Special Ops team leader joins forces with an Australian Defence Force Tactical Assault Group expert who specializes in biological warfare to stop an imminent chemical threat. When the threat becomes personal and the body count mounts, they find themselves locked in a safe room, where they discover their sizzling history takes little [...]
After her first two weeks observing the problems at DecisionTech, Kathryn Petersen, its new CEO, had more than a few moments when she wondered if she should have taken the job. But Kathryn knew there was little chance she would have turned it down. After all, retirement made her antsy, and nothing excited her more [...]
Meetings. They’re a fact of life. You’d be hard pressed to find a businessperson that doesn’t attend at least one meeting a week. And most spend a good deal of their time in meetings. Just the act of working in a team implies there will be meetings to attend. Using a conservative estimate of 10 [...]
How many times have you heard a team member say, “I didn’t know that?” or “Gosh, when did that change?” or “I wouldn’t have wasted my time on this task if I’d known what direction it was going.” Sadly, it’s way too common in a team environment. Most of the time, it’s not intentional. Team [...]
Problems with team work roles and responsibility are some of the most common, and most frustrating of all team issues. Team members often assume that, because there are documents such as organization charts and position descriptions, there is sufficient information available about team roles and who should be doing what. However, there are good reasons [...]
Won Book of the Year Adult Non-Fiction—2012 Indie Choice AwardsAmazon Best Book of the Month February 2011"Dubus relives, absent self-pity or blame, a life shaped by bouts of violence and flurries of tenderness."—Vanity FairAfter their parents divorced in the 1970s, Andre … [Read More...]
From the Man Booker Prize–winning author of The Line of Beauty: a magnificent, century-spanning saga about a love triangle that spawns a myth, and a family mystery, across generations. In the late summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge schoolmate—a handsome, … [Read More...]
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