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There Is an I in Team: What Elite Athletes and Coaches Really Know About High Performance
Written by Mark de Rond
Narrated by Joe Geoffrey
Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
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About this audiobook
We've all worked with one-a smart and immensely talented individual who brings enormous value to the organization. The problem? He's an awful teammate.
So as a leader, do you consider this key player toxic or irreplaceable?
There Is an I in Team explores the relationship between individual and team-asking the question, How can we harness the talent of individual performers into a cohesive, productive team that creates overall value? And why are so many of our assumptions about teams wrong?
Business challenges like this one mimic many of the issues facing sports teams, though admittedly the sports metaphors most commonly used in business are trite and superficial comparisons. What's needed are real and substantial lessons that managers actually can take from the world of high-performance sports and use in an everyday work environment. This audiobook meets that need.
University of Cambridge professor Mark de Rond has combined cutting-edge social and psychological research with rich stories from world-class sports teams, coaches, athletes, and even business executives. The result challenges our most popular notions about teams. Equally critical, it teaches an innovative way to transform team potential into measurable business advantage.
You'll learn:
• Why there is an I in team-and why that matters
• Why an ideal team is rarely comprised of the best individual performers
• Why conflict happens even when intentions are perfectly aligned
• Why likability can trump competence even in technically sophisticated environments
• Why a focus on interpersonal harmony can actually hurt team performance
• Why data and sophisticated statistical tools are unlikely to eliminate the role of intuition
There Is an I in Team will strengthen your understanding of the issues that permeate teams of high-performers, and it will help you apply these new insights to your own work-giving you and your team an edge over the competition.
So as a leader, do you consider this key player toxic or irreplaceable?
There Is an I in Team explores the relationship between individual and team-asking the question, How can we harness the talent of individual performers into a cohesive, productive team that creates overall value? And why are so many of our assumptions about teams wrong?
Business challenges like this one mimic many of the issues facing sports teams, though admittedly the sports metaphors most commonly used in business are trite and superficial comparisons. What's needed are real and substantial lessons that managers actually can take from the world of high-performance sports and use in an everyday work environment. This audiobook meets that need.
University of Cambridge professor Mark de Rond has combined cutting-edge social and psychological research with rich stories from world-class sports teams, coaches, athletes, and even business executives. The result challenges our most popular notions about teams. Equally critical, it teaches an innovative way to transform team potential into measurable business advantage.
You'll learn:
• Why there is an I in team-and why that matters
• Why an ideal team is rarely comprised of the best individual performers
• Why conflict happens even when intentions are perfectly aligned
• Why likability can trump competence even in technically sophisticated environments
• Why a focus on interpersonal harmony can actually hurt team performance
• Why data and sophisticated statistical tools are unlikely to eliminate the role of intuition
There Is an I in Team will strengthen your understanding of the issues that permeate teams of high-performers, and it will help you apply these new insights to your own work-giving you and your team an edge over the competition.
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5This book presents a raft of moderately to fairly interesting facts and figures about sport, interspersed with a smaller amount of moderately to fairly interesting facts and figures about business, in such a way as to invite the reader to draw comparisons and parallels between them.However, what it doesn’t manage to do at all convincingly is marshal all these facts and figures into a set of coherent arguments that make a point. So, although I found it interesting, there were quite a few moments when I wondered why I was reading a particular passage, ie what the author was trying to tell me.For me, the book didn’t offer any new insights into team selection or performance; rather it seemed to rehash existing wisdom about teams. For instance I didn’t need to read 146 pages to be told in the conclusion that “team leaders need to understand the idiosyncrasies, ambitions and anxieties of those in their charge”, or that “people do what they do for their own reasons, not yours”.There are many business books on the market. Although it is interesting, this one doesn’t offer enough new insights to justify the time spent reading it.