Description
Want to achieve spectacular success in your personal and business life? Looking for ways to mold and capture superior teamwork, cohesion, and bone-deep dedication? Put Real Dream Teams on your list of must reads.
From the headlines used to describe groups such as the 1992 U.S. Olympic basketball team, to Hollywood production moguls, to attorneys clashing in major criminal cases, we have all heard the phrase "dream teams" used and misused. Real Dream Teams
is a book that focuses on extraordinary efforts by conditioned winners who have achieved outstanding results through what the authors call "synergistic group dynamics."
Let Real Dream Teams point you in the direction of becoming a more effective team leader and team member. Read of team efforts and extraordinary practices and results as demonstrated by recipients of the Nobel Prize, the Medal of Honor, national championships, and best-in-industry awards. Take tips from those who have achieved their membership in Real Dream Teams:
Table of Contents
Why Teams? The New Environment, Competitiveness, Self-Centeredness, High Expectations, Accelerating Change, Increased Interdependence, Teams Tackle the New Environment, Best Team Experience, The Real Dream Team Leaders, Selection of Twelve Real Dream Team Leaders, The Seven Practices of Real Dream Teams, Commitment to a Clear Mission, Mutual Support and Encouragement, Clearly Defined Roles, Win-Win Cooperation, Individual Competency, Empowering Communication, Winning Attitude, The Seven Practices Template, "Is What You're Doing Important?", Practice #1: Commitment To A Clear Mission, Creating a Clear Sense of Mission, The Mission Statement, The Tyson Foods Mission Statement, The Process of Developing Mission, Is What You're Doing Important?, "A Turtle On A Fencepost", Practice #2: Mutual Support, Respect, And Encouragement, "None Of Us Is As Good As All Of Us", Practice #3: Clearly Defined And Accepted Roles, Strength Through Diversity, Personal Style Diversity, More Diversity: Organizational Applications, Stars and Understudies, How Successful Leaders Utilize Roles, Clear Role Definition, Role Clarification and Negotiation, The "Litmus Test" for Clear Roles, 100% Responsibility and Empowerment, "Let's Win Championships", Practice #4: Win-Win Cooperation, The Potential for Win-Win, "We Have Met the Enemy", Getting from Win-Lose to Win-Win, The Reality of Conflict, Learning About Win-Win Cooperation, Aligning Systems with the Cooperative Philosophy, Taking Win-Win to the Top of the World, "Whose Rope Are You Willing To Hook Into?, Practice #5: Individual Competency, Hard Work, Focus on the Fundamentals, Recruitment and Selection of the Most Capable People, Know Your Limits, "Just Getting Together And Talking", Practice #6: Empowering Communication, Empowerment, Practicing Empowering Communication, Are You Willing to Listen to Me? Are You Willing to Share Information?, Are You Willing to Include Me in Decisions that Affect Me? Show-Time, Post Cereals: Jonesboro, Arkansas, "Respect Without Fear", Practice #7: Winning Attitude, Attitude Is Everything, Overcoming Adversity, Thoughts that Kill, Courage that Defeats Fear, Change Your Thoughts-Change Your Life, From Seven Concepts To Seven Practices: Putting Teamwork Into Action, From Concepts to Practices to Patterns of Behavior, Change Process, The Fabric of Teamwork, Developing Practices, Examples of Teams that Work, Your Search for a Better Way
