The Best Team Wins: The New Science of High Performance
Written by Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton
Narrated by Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton
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A massive shift is taking place in the business world. In today’s average company, up to eighty percent of employees’ days are now spent working in teams. And yet the teams most people find themselves in are nowhere near as effective as they could be. They’re often divided by tensions, if not outright dissension, and dysfunctional teams drain employees’ energy, enthusiasm, and creativity. Now Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton share the proven ways managers can build cohesive, productive teams, despite the distractions and challenges every business is facing.
In The Best Team Wins, Gostick and Elton studied more than 850,000 employee engagement surveys to develop their “Five Disciplines of Team Leaders,” explaining how to recognize and motivate different generations to enhance individual engagement; ways to promote healthy discord and spark innovation; and techniques to unify customer focus and build bridges across functions, cultures, and distance. They’ve shared these disciplines with their corporate clients and have now distilled their breakthrough findings into a succinct, engaging guide for business leaders everywhere. Gostick and Elton offer practical ways to address the real challenges today’s managers are facing, such as the rise of the Millennials, the increasing speed of change, the growing number of global and virtual teams, and the friction created by working cross-functionally.
This is a must-read for anyone looking to maximize performance at work, from two of the most successful corporate consultants of their generation, whom The New York Times called “creative and refreshing.”
Adrian Gostick
Adrian Gostick is the author of such books as The Carrot Principle, Leading with Gratitude, and All In, which have been New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers. His works have been translated into more than thirty languages and have sold 1.5 million copies around the world. He has appeared on NBC’s Today show and been quoted in the Economist, Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal, and Fortune; and he is a leadership strategy contributor to Forbes. Gostick is the cofounder of the motivation assessment firm FindMojo.com. He is ranked among the Top 10 Global Gurus in Leadership and is ranked the number 3 Organizational Culture expert in the world. Learn more at adriangostick.com.
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Readers find this title to be a nice and valuable book. It provides insights on why storytelling is important and offers ideas for personal and professional development. It is recommended for new managers or team lead individuals."
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5nice book. really good, sure looking forward to implementing the ideas in it.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5the book is about why storytelling is important. A lot of fluff!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is a very nice book /audiobook! Indeed, one of the most precious asset of any company is their people! If a company select the in the field and values their people and would do everything necessary for their development, then there's no reason why that that organization will not succeed.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great book for a new manager or team lead person.