Recommended Books

      Below is a brief description of the books, click above for details on reviews and purchasing.

 

The Complete IDIOT’s Guide to Team Building      

This book gives a tool/reference guide for creating and leading a powerful work team.  It provides key elements for motivating team members, team success and ways to effective leadership, developing upward and downward communication, how to run productive meetings and how to make each team member an active participant in the decision-making and implementation process and developing team Norms.

 

The Team Handbook 

Everything you need to know about team dynamics and managing team projects.  Full of tools and tips in very usable format.

 

Overcoming Your Strengths: 8 Reasons Why Successful People Derail and How to Remain on Track

How our personality strengths can work against us in the wrong team situations.

 

The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the high performance organization 

Experienced consutants layout a hard-nosed approach to successful teamwork.

 

Inside Teams: How 20 World-class Organizations are Winning Through Teamwork 

How to use teams to reorganize your organization.

 

Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration

How talent can be pooled and managed for great results that beat what any individual can do.  Recommended for anyone on a team.

 

The Courageous Follower: Standing Up to and for Our Leaders

A redefinition of the importance and responsibilities to follow.  Recommended for anyone who is a follower.  

 

Managing A Project Team Permachart

Strategies to help you lead a project from start to finish.                   

Recommended Movies       

 

 

The Amazing Race (CBS)        

The Amazing Race is about a group of people working together to get to a designated location somewhere in the world.  Though they all have the same mission, each has their own task/duties and they are dependent upon each other to reach their detestation.  Relationships are stretched to the limit, but they work it out so they can accomplish the mission. They adapt quickly to changes as distractions often occur.

 

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

This classic tale is one of teamwork in action.  The unlikely formation of Dorothy and her three new friends demonstrate the value of diverse team.  They face a variety of trials together in a quest they all mutually hope to gain from by attaining their individual aspirations.