Download or read book The Advantage written by Patrick M. Lencioni and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-03-14 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a competitive advantage out there, arguably more powerful than any other. Is it superior strategy? Faster innovation? Smarter employees? No, New York Times best-selling author, Patrick Lencioni, argues that the seminal difference between successful companies and mediocre ones has little to do with what they know and how smart they are and more to do with how healthy they are. In this book, Lencioni brings together his vast experience and many of the themes cultivated in his other best-selling books and delivers a first: a cohesive and comprehensive exploration of the unique advantage organizational health provides. Simply put, an organization is healthy when it is whole, consistent and complete, when its management, operations and culture are unified. Healthy organizations outperform their counterparts, are free of politics and confusion and provide an environment where star performers never want to leave. Lencioni’s first non-fiction book provides leaders with a groundbreaking, approachable model for achieving organizational health—complete with stories, tips and anecdotes from his experiences consulting to some of the nation’s leading organizations. In this age of informational ubiquity and nano-second change, it is no longer enough to build a competitive advantage based on intelligence alone. The Advantage provides a foundational construct for conducting business in a new way—one that maximizes human potential and aligns the organization around a common set of principles.
Download or read book Team Advantage Team Leader s Field Guide written by D. J. Mitsch and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-06-28 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide for leading extraordinary, sustainable team transformation Team Advantage is a proven team coaching program/esigned to transform you and your team through a/evelopment process—one that goes beyond the typical 2-day team-building event. The program is presented as an organizational "game" oriented around a stretch goal that is meaningful to you and your organization's success. Using this guide, you will partner with a coach who conveys to you the necessary coaching skills. Together you can focus on guiding your team to new awareness, new agreements and extraordinary performance. The process includes four phases of team/evelopment that are implemented over the course of 16 weeks: Pre-game preparation: You will learn coaching skills and help interview each team member to set the stage for the program Kick-off workshop: Your team creates their own game plan oriented around an extraordinary goal Weekly coaching sessions: Your team members will provide progress updates and learn to support their teammates Review of team accomplishments and its transformation: The team takes time to assimilate learning and celebrate their wins and their new level of communication In addition to focusing on attainment of the stretch goal, the program provides a forum for real conversations, truth telling, and surfacing conflict as a natural and integral part of team/ynamics. In addition, it leaves you and your team with a replicable process for continuing to grow together as you accomplish you and your team's potential.
Download or read book Team Advantage Participant s Workbook written by D. J. Mitsch and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-06-28 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide for leading extraordinary, sustainable team transformation Team Advantage is a dynamic program that can transform your team through a proven development process— one that goes beyond the typical 2-day team-building event. The program is presented as an organizational "game" oriented around a stretch goal that is meaningful to you and your organization's success. Together the coach and team leader will focus on guiding you and your team members to new awareness, new agreements and extraordinary performance. The process includes four phases of team development that are implemented over the course of 16 weeks: Pre-game preparation: Each member of your team is interviewed to set the stage for the program Kick-off workshop: Your team creates their own game plan oriented around an extraordinary goal Weekly coaching sessions: You and your other team members provide progress updates while supporting each other Review of team accomplishments and transformation: Your team takes time to assimilate learning and celebrate your wins and your new level of communication In addition to focusing on attainment of the stretch goal, the program leaves your team with a replicable process for continuing to grow together as you and your teammates accomplish their potential.
Download or read book The Ideal Team Player written by Patrick M. Lencioni and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-04-25 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his classic book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni laid out a groundbreaking approach for tackling the perilous group behaviors that destroy teamwork. Here he turns his focus to the individual, revealing the three indispensable virtues of an ideal team player. In The Ideal Team Player, Lencioni tells the story of Jeff Shanley, a leader desperate to save his uncle’s company by restoring its cultural commitment to teamwork. Jeff must crack the code on the virtues that real team players possess, and then build a culture of hiring and development around those virtues. Beyond the fable, Lencioni presents a practical framework and actionable tools for identifying, hiring, and developing ideal team players. Whether you’re a leader trying to create a culture around teamwork, a staffing professional looking to hire real team players, or a team player wanting to improve yourself, this book will prove to be as useful as it is compelling.
Download or read book Team Advantage 2 0 written by Darelyn Dj Mitsch and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get ready to create an extraordinary goal, one that your team will find compelling enough to play for, to work toward, and to pull team members to a new level of communication and collaboration. In a world where many people stop short of their potential, Team Advantage invites you to adopt the principles of sport and play for something extraordinary and meaningful that your team members create together.These sports or playground principles are inherent in how Team Advantage works to support teams to win a business game:- There is a clear understanding of what it takes to win.- You keep score.- Team members have established positions and roles to play.- There is clear communication during the game.- There is effective use of ?time-outs? or ?huddles.?Teams run organizations, yet the dynamic movement and changing mandates in most businesses and organizations can cause teams to change members and leaders; as a result, they lose momentum.Team Advantage is an innovative program that goes beyond typical team - building exercises and harnesses a team ? s focus and strengths to play for something bigger ? to imagine an amazing outcome and then put a plan in place to achieve it.What makes the 16 - week Team Advantage unique is that it provides the missing link in most team - building exercises ? coaching! You will be guided through this team process by a coach, an unbiasedpartner who is absolutely committed to having you win your game ? committed enough to speak straight, ask thought ? provoking questions, and challenge you to be your best. Playing Team Advantage requires courage and commitment. The coach will create the safety for you to engage in deeper connections and truth telling. The overarching goal in the delivery of this process is to provide a way for teams to rediscover the magic inherent in playing for something meaningful!Welcome to Team Advantage!
Download or read book Leading at a Higher Level written by Ken Blanchard and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2007 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains sections on, setting your sights on the right target and vision, treating your customers right, treating your people right, and having the right kind of leadership.
Download or read book X Teams written by Deborah Ancona and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2007-05-17 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do good teams fail? Very often, argue Deborah Ancona and Henrik Bresman, it is because they are looking inward instead of outward. Based on years of research examining teams across many industries, Ancona and Bresman show that traditional team models are falling short, and that what’s needed--and what works--is a new brand of team that emphasizes external outreach to stakeholders, extensive ties, expandable tiers, and flexible membership. The authors highlight that X-teams not only are able to adapt in ways that traditional teams aren’t, but that they actually improve an organization’s ability to produce creative ideas and execute them—increasing the entrepreneurial and innovative capacity within the firm. What’s more, the new environment demands what the authors call “distributed leadership,” and the book highlights how X-teams powerfully embody this idea.
Download or read book Scorecasting written by Tobias Moskowitz and published by Crown. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Scorecasting, University of Chicago behavioral economist Tobias Moskowitz teams up with veteran Sports Illustrated writer L. Jon Wertheim to overturn some of the most cherished truisms of sports, and reveal the hidden forces that shape how basketball, baseball, football, and hockey games are played, won and lost. Drawing from Moskowitz's original research, as well as studies from fellow economists such as bestselling author Richard Thaler, the authors look at: the influence home-field advantage has on the outcomes of games in all sports and why it exists; the surprising truth about the universally accepted axiom that defense wins championships; the subtle biases that umpires exhibit in calling balls and strikes in key situations; the unintended consequences of referees' tendencies in every sport to "swallow the whistle," and more. Among the insights that Scorecasting reveals: • Why Tiger Woods is prone to the same mistake in high-pressure putting situations that you and I are • Why professional teams routinely overvalue draft picks • The myth of momentum or the "hot hand" in sports, and why so many fans, coaches, and broadcasters fervently subscribe to it • Why NFL coaches rarely go for a first down on fourth-down situations--even when their reluctance to do so reduces their chances of winning. In an engaging narrative that takes us from the putting greens of Augusta to the grid iron of a small parochial high school in Arkansas, Scorecasting will forever change how you view the game, whatever your favorite sport might be.
Download or read book Team Advantage 2 0 written by Darelyn Dj Mitsch and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get ready to create an extraordinary goal, one that your team will find compelling enough to play for, to work toward, and to pull team members to a new level of communication and collaboration. In a world where many people stop short of their potential, Team Advantage invites you to adopt the principles of sport and play for something extraordinary and meaningful that your team members create together.These sports or playground principles are inherent in how Team Advantage works to support teams to win a business game:- There is a clear understanding of what it takes to win.- You keep score.- Team members have established positions and roles to play.- There is clear communication during the game.- There is effective use of "time-outs" or "huddles."Teams run organizations, yet the dynamic movement and changing mandates in most businesses and organizations can cause teams to change members and leaders; as a result, they lose momentum.Team Advantage is an innovative program that goes beyond typical team - building exercises and harnesses a team ' s focus and strengths to play for something bigger -- to imagine an amazing outcome and then put a plan in place to achieve it.What makes the 16 - week Team Advantage unique is that it provides the missing link in most team - building exercises -- coaching! You will be guided through this team process by a coach, an unbiasedpartner who is absolutely committed to having you win your game -- committed enough to speak straight, ask thought - provoking questions, and challenge you to be your best. Playing Team Advantage requires courage and commitment. The coach will create the safety for you to engage in deeper connections and truth telling. The overarching goal in the delivery of this process is to provide a way for teams to rediscover the magic inherent in playing for something meaningful!Welcome to Team Advantage!
Download or read book Team WORKS written by Chris Valletta and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-29 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Team WORKS! former NFL player turned entrepreneur Chris Valletta describes the strategies and tools needed to build a championship-caliber business team, using athletic principles. He has spent his business career perfecting these traits - and has helped produce three multi-million dollar ventures in the process. This book raises the bar for business guides and expands over the normal approach other books preach. It’s like having your own personal employee activist, telling you exactly the right moves to make at the right time, to achieve the greatest possible results for your business. With contributions from well-known sport legends, famous entrepreneurs, and a Foreword by Donald Trump, Valetta ties football tactics into building a championship business team. With humorous stories and real-life adventures Valetta’s book will entertain football lovers and non-football lovers alike.
Download or read book Team Advantage 2 written by Darelyn Dj Mitsch and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get ready to create an extraordinary goal, one that your team will find compelling enough to play for, to work toward, and to pull team members to a new level of communication and collaboration. In a world where many people stop short of their potential, Team Advantage invites you to adopt the principles of sport and play for something extraordinary and meaningful that your team members create together.These sports or playground principles are inherent in how Team Advantage works to support teams to win a business game:- There is a clear understanding of what it takes to win.- You keep score.- Team members have established positions and roles to play.- There is clear communication during the game.- There is effective use of "time-outs" or "huddles."Teams run organizations, yet the dynamic movement and changing mandates in most businesses and organizations can cause teams to change members and leaders; as a result, they lose momentum.Team Advantage is an innovative program that goes beyond typical team - building exercises and harnesses a team ' s focus and strengths to play for something bigger -- to imagine an amazing outcome and then put a plan in place to achieve it.What makes the 16 - week Team Advantage unique is that it provides the missing link in most team - building exercises -- coaching! You will be guided through this team process by a coach, an unbiasedpartner who is absolutely committed to having you win your game -- committed enough to speak straight, ask thought - provoking questions, and challenge you to be your best. Playing Team Advantage requires courage and commitment. The coach will create the safety for you to engage in deeper connections and truth telling. The overarching goal in the delivery of this process is to provide a way for teams to rediscover the magic inherent in playing for something meaningful!Welcome to Team Advantage!
Download or read book Home Team written by Michael N. Danielson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most books that study professional sports concentrate on teams and leagues. In contrast, Home Team studies the connections between professional team sports in North America and the places where teams play. It examines the relationships between the four major professional team sports--baseball, basketball, football, and hockey--and the cities that attach their names, their hearts, and their increasing amount of tax dollars to big league teams. From the names on their uniforms to the loyalties of their fans, teams are tied to the places in which they play. Nonetheless, teams, like other urban businesses, are affected by changes in their environments--like the flight of their customers to suburbs and changes in local political climates. In Home Team, professional sports are scrutinized in the larger context of the metropolitan areas that surround and support them. Michael Danielson is particularly interested in the political aspects of the connections between professional sports teams and cities. He points out that local and state governments are now major players in the competition for franchises, providing increasingly lavish publicly funded facilities for what are, in fact, private business ventures. As a result, professional sports enterprises, which have insisted that private leagues rather than public laws be the proper means of regulating games, have become powerful political players, seeking additional benefits from government, often playing off one city against another. The wide variety of governmental responses reflects the enormous diversity of urban and state politics in the United States and in the Canadian cities and provinces that host professional teams. Home Team collects a vast amount of data, much of it difficult to find elsewhere, including information on the relocation of franchises, expansion teams, new leagues, stadium development, and the political influence of the rich cast of characters involved in the ongoing contests over where teams will play and who will pay. Everyone who is interested in the present condition and future prospects of professional sports will be captivated by this informative and provocative new book.
Download or read book Home Field Advantage written by Dahlia Adler and published by Wednesday Books. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Dahlia Adler's Home Field Advantage, a sweet and funny f/f romance from the author of Cool for the Summer, a cheerleader and the school's newest quarterback are playing to win, but might lose their hearts in the process. Amber McCloud’s dream is to become cheer captain at the end of the year, but it’s an extra-tall order to be joyful and spirited when the quarterback of your team has been killed in a car accident. For both the team and the squad, watching Robbie get replaced by newcomer Jack Walsh is brutal. And when it turns out Jack is actually short for Jaclyn, all hell breaks loose. The players refuse to be led by a girl, the cheerleaders are mad about the changes to their traditions, and the fact that Robbie’s been not only replaced but outshined by a QB who wears a sports bra has more than a few Atherton Alligators in a rage. Amber tries for some semblance of unity, but it quickly becomes clear that she's only got a future on the squad and with her friends if she helps them take Jack down. Just one problem: Amber and Jack are falling for each other, and if Amber can't stand up for Jack and figure out how to get everyone to fall in line, her dream may come at the cost of her heart. Dahlia Adler's Home Field Advantage is a sparkling romance about fighting for what - or who - you truly want.
Download or read book Teaming written by Amy C. Edmondson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New breakthrough thinking in organizational learning, leadership, and change Continuous improvement, understanding complex systems, and promoting innovation are all part of the landscape of learning challenges today's companies face. Amy Edmondson shows that organizations thrive, or fail to thrive, based on how well the small groups within those organizations work. In most organizations, the work that produces value for customers is carried out by teams, and increasingly, by flexible team-like entities. The pace of change and the fluidity of most work structures means that it's not really about creating effective teams anymore, but instead about leading effective teaming. Teaming shows that organizations learn when the flexible, fluid collaborations they encompass are able to learn. The problem is teams, and other dynamic groups, don't learn naturally. Edmondson outlines the factors that prevent them from doing so, such as interpersonal fear, irrational beliefs about failure, groupthink, problematic power dynamics, and information hoarding. With Teaming, leaders can shape these factors by encouraging reflection, creating psychological safety, and overcoming defensive interpersonal dynamics that inhibit the sharing of ideas. Further, they can use practical management strategies to help organizations realize the benefits inherent in both success and failure. Presents a clear explanation of practical management concepts for increasing learning capability for business results Introduces a framework that clarifies how learning processes must be altered for different kinds of work Explains how Collaborative Learning works, and gives tips for how to do it well Includes case-study research on Intermountain healthcare, Prudential, GM, Toyota, IDEO, the IRS, and both Cincinnati and Minneapolis Children's Hospitals, among others Based on years of research, this book shows how leaders can make organizational learning happen by building teams that learn.
Download or read book Authority Marketing written by Adam Witty and published by Forbesbooks. This book was released on 2018-05-03 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how to use Authority Marketing(R) to build thought leadership and dominate your competition by playing a game no one else knows is being played with this ground-breaking book! Are you the Authority in your field? Are you recognized as a stand-out thought leader, a published author, a keynote speaker, or a media personality? Are you viewed as a commodity? A hard-working expert who is a commodity and has to compete on every level, including price? One thing is for certain: Authority doesn't just happen; Authority is built through a systematic process called the Authority Marketing System. But how can you make this shift in an environment that is noisier and more crowded than ever before? If you are an entrepreneur, CEO, or professional who is frustrated with the traditional approach to marketing and wants to grow your business and make a bigger impact, this book will show you how to use the Authority Marketing System to create a clear and trackable blueprint to shift yourself from a commoditized expert to a highly visible Authority. In this book you will learn: - What Authority Marketing is and how to use it to grow your business - The 7 Pillars of Authority Marketing - How others have used Authority Marketing to create unimaginable success - Why thought leadership is your most important secret weapon Authority Marketing isn't about ego or attention--it's about accelerating the speed of trust so you are viewed not as an expert with something to sell, but as a thought leader with important insight to teach. Start growing your Authority today!
Download or read book Business Intelligence Competency Centers written by Gloria J. Miller and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2006-05-11 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transform data into action for competitive advantage "The knowledge assets of an organization are becoming increasingly important for competitive advantage, and therefore, the way in which knowledge is created, renewed, and communicated is critical. This book provides practical insights into how this may be achieved through the establishment of a Business Intelligence Competency Centre and is a valuable read for 'information professionals.'" --Bill Sturman, Information Architecture Project Manager The Open University, United Kingdom "BI is more than technology and projects. BI must live in the organization--as a BICC. This book helps to make BI tangible and understandable, bringing it to life." --Miriam Eisenmann, Project Manager (PMP) CSC Ploenzke AG, Germany "This book is a must-read for planning and implementing your BICC. It is a pragmatic guide that addresses a lot, if not all, of the questions you'll be asking yourself. Don't miss out on getting a head start from the people who thought this through from start to finish . . . Pray your competitors don't get hold of this book!" --Claudia Imhoff, President Intelligent Solutions, Inc., USA "Creating a BICC forces the organization to focus on the importance of centralizing the gathering, interpreting, and analyzing of information to create business insight." --Anne Ulyate, Group Manager Business Intelligence Mutual & Federal, South Africa "BI is a highly visible element in the 'business value' trend for IT investments. Initiatives, such as competency centers, should empower user organizations to drive even more value out of their BI investments." --Marianne Kolding, Director, European ServicesIDC, United Kingdom
Download or read book Sports Games and Play written by Jeffrey H. Goldstein and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updated study of sports and recreation utilizes the most current research, introducing the latest innovations and analyses in new chapters while revising and expanding chapters from the previous edition. Presenting diverse methodological and conceptual approaches, this anthology reflects the current view of sports as a "natural laboratory" for ecologically valid research. This collection contains literature reviews, innovative theories and methods, and essays on various psychological and social aspects of sports, games, and organized play.
