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The New Why Teams Don’t Work: What Goes Wrong and How to Make It Right
By harveyrobbins | August 29, 2007
Many teams run into trouble, say Harvey Robbins and Michael Finley, because teams themselves fail to think through the human implications of teaming. This practical guide teaches team members and team leaders how to maintain the highest level of team intelligence - providing the skills, attitudes, and emotional flexibility needed to get the most out of a team’s inherent differences.
No matter who is on your team, you can learn how to interact better with them, turn negative friction into positive disagreement, make better decisions, stay focused on goals, and come in on budget. This book shows you how to: get hidden agendas on the table, clarify individual roles, like who’s doing what, learn what other team members want from you, find a way to work with them in a way they can respond to, and much more.
Based on the authors’ previous book, Why Teams Don’t Work, this book includes completely new information on team intelligence, team technology, collaboration vs. teamwork, team balance, teams at the top, and the team of one, plus all new examples.
Reviews about The New Why Teams Don’t Work
“Finley and Robbins set us on a compelling journey to teams success by helping us to see and embrace the secrets we often hide from ourselves and our teammates.”
- Richard J. Leider, author of The Power of Purpose and coauthor of Repacking Your Bags
“An Immensely helpful book. [The] suggestions are a compassionate, yet tough-minded and practical.”
- Robert K. Cooper, Ph.D., author of The Performance Edge and Executive EQ
“Robbins and Finley are provocative writers…the read is fast, funny, and highly stimulating.”
- Business Book Review
“Robbins and Finley not only set us straight on the real world of teams but also tell how to make them work for our organizations.” - James A. Autry, author of Confessions of an Accidental Businessman
“This book is for the millions of workers who either volunteered or were enlisted by a team, gave their honest best to the cause, and then wondered why.”
- Library Journal
ISBN: 1576751104
Topics: Books by Harvey Robbins |