The I In Team

McCreary explains how to build a more energized, more productive, and more enjoyable organization by focusing on three crucial "IUs" that should be a part of every team: intelligence, initiative, and integrity.

"Examines the fundamental aspects of team development with temperament theory-core psychological needs, values, and talents of team members that are essential to the well-being and high performance of a team"--Provided by publisher.

There is one sound that will always be loudest in sports. It isn’t the squeak of sneakers or the crunch of helmets; it isn’t the grunts or even the stadium music. It’s the deafening roar of sports fans. For those few among us on the outside, sports fandom—with its war paint and pennants, its pricey cable TV packages and esoteric stats reeled off like code—looks highly irrational, entertainment gone overboard. But as Erin C. Tarver demonstrates in this book, sports fandom has become extraordinarily important to our psyche, a matter of the very essence of who we are. Why in the world, Tarver asks, would anyone care about how well a total stranger can throw a ball, or hit one with a bat, or toss one through a hoop? Because such activities and the massive public events that surround them form some of the most meaningful ritual identity practices we have today. They are a primary way we—as individuals and a collective—decide both who we are who we are not. And as such, they are also one of the key ways that various social structures—such as race and gender hierarchies—are sustained, lending a dark side to the joys of being a sports fan. Drawing on everything from philosophy to sociology to sports history, she offers a profound exploration of the significance of sports in contemporary life, showing us just how high the stakes of the game are.

Through numerous examples from sports, highlighted by interviews from distinguished players and coaches around the world, de Rond shows what team leaders can learn by focusing on the individuals within them.

Cultivating high-performance teamwork is like growing a garden. We get out of it what we put into it. The i in Team challenges common misperceptions about teamwork and exposes the critical ingredients missing from many of today's teams, businesses, and organizations. In it, authors Michael McMillan and John Murphy show you how to experience a paradigm shift, transcending independent thinking and unleashing interdependent power. This book will show you how to tap the unique potential, inputs and talents of the individuals on your team, while creating more intrigue, involvement and interaction among team members. In reading The i in Team, you'll discover that not only is there an "i" in team, there are many.

Elevate yourself to elevate your team — Become the fearless, effective, and self-made high-performer that brings your team to the finish line! Want your team to have winning seasons year after year? Ready to take control of the game so your team can be successful in the workplace? Want to be mentally tough so you can be the leader you dreamed of? Now you can with “The ‘I’ in Team: The Playbook To Create A Winning Culture and Thriving Business” by motivational speaker, mindset expert, and world-class athlete Charles Clark! We’ve been told that there is no “I” in team. But what this mantra does instead is: holds us back from seeing ourselves as a player that can add value to the team’s arsenal, keeps us inside an over-engineered box that plays off tedious consensus-based rulings and politicking, isolates leaders and disconnects team members from taking ownership, and keeps us stuck and unable to follow through with decisions rapidly. Successful organizations start with themselves, the "I". Because no championship team has won a game without someone taking personal accountability and extreme ownership of their team culture. And that’s what “The ‘I’ in Team” can give you. If you’re ready to learn game-changing strategies on how to embody the “I” in Team mindset and elevate yourself to a position of leadership, then this book is for you! In this groundbreaking guide, you will learn several “plays” including: 1st Play: Investing in Profit 2nd Play: The Power of Automation 3rd Play: Strength Finder 4th Play: The Importance of Ownership 5th Play: Bridging the Gap 6th Play: Being Coachable 7th Play: Follow-through You are both an individual on a team charged to carry your own weight and a member of a team responsible for denying yourself to support others. This book teaches you how to embrace all of that so you can eventually become the leader who contributes to the overall good of the organization and brings your team to the finish line. Ready to embody the “I” in team? Then don’t waste another second!

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.

Effective software teams are essential for any organization to deliver value continuously and sustainably. But how do you build the best team organization for your specific goals, culture, and needs? Team Topologies is a practical, step-by-step, adaptive model for organizational design and team interaction based on four fundamental team types and three team interaction patterns. It is a model that treats teams as the fundamental means of delivery, where team structures and communication pathways are able to evolve with technological and organizational maturity. In Team Topologies, IT consultants Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais share secrets of successful team patterns and interactions to help readers choose and evolve the right team patterns for their organization, making sure to keep the software healthy and optimize value streams. Team Topologies is a major step forward in organizational design for software, presenting a well-defined way for teams to interact and interrelate that helps make the resulting software architecture clearer and more sustainable, turning inter-team problems into valuable signals for the self-steering organization.