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Great Teams: 16 Things High Performing Organizations Do Differently Kindle Edition
What makes a team great? Not just good and not just functional—but great?
Over six years, long-time Sports Illustrated editor Don Yaeger was invited by some of the greatest companies in the world to speak about the habits of high-performing individuals. From Microsoft and Starbucks to the New England Patriots and San Antonio Spurs, what do some organizations do seemingly better than most of their opponents?
Don took the challenge. He began building into his travel schedule opportunities to interview our generation’s greatest team builders from the sports and business worlds. During this process, he conducted more than 100 interviews with some of the most successful teams and organizations in the country. From those interviews, Don identified 16 habits that drive these high-performing teams.
Building on the stories, examples, and first-hand accounts, each chapter in Great Teams comes with applicable examples on how to apply these characteristics in any organization. Great Teams includes:
- Life lessons from some of the most notable names in sports and business applied to team-making in any situation
- Interviews from well-known players from Peyton and Eli Manning to Kevin Durant
- Skills to allow culture to shape who you recruit, manage dysfunction, friction, and strong personalities
- Advice on how to win in critical situations, embrace change, build a mentoring culture, and see value others miss
Great Teams is the ultimate intersection of the sports and business worlds and a powerful companion for thought leaders, teams, managers, and organizations that seek to perform similarly. The insight shared in this book is sure to enhance any team in its pursuit of excellence.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherThomas Nelson
- Publication dateJuly 19, 2016
- File size1814 KB
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Mike Krzyzewski, 5-time NCAA Tournament Champion, 2-time Olympic Gold Medal Winning Basketball Coach"There is nothing more magical than watching a team come together, to manage adversity as a group, selflessly give to others, to find common purpose. Inspiring that to happen year-in and year-out is what keeps us in leadership. Don Yaeger has studied the best of the best. Now it is our turn to study this book." |
Gary Kelly, CEO and Chairman of Southwest Airlines"Everyone wants to work on or play on a Great Team. The differentiator I’ve noticed is that the best teams pay close attention to and protect their culture and their people. Don Yaeger shows in this book that the same lessons are true on the sporting fields. There’s much to be learned within these pages and I know you’ll enjoy." |
GJ Hart, CEO, California Pizza Kitchen"There are so many parallels between building a great sports team and building a corporate one, not the least of which that great culture makes amazing things possible. Great Teams by Don Yaeger provides a roadmap for all of us...in either of those worlds." |
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About the Author
Don Yaeger is nine-time New York Times best-selling author, longtime associate editor at Sports Illustrated, and award-winning inspirational speaker. He lives in Tallahassee, Florida, with his wife, son, and daughter.
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- ASIN : B01864DWI8
- Publisher : Thomas Nelson; Special ed. edition (July 19, 2016)
- Publication date : July 19, 2016
- Language : English
- File size : 1814 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 250 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #686,784 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #564 in Human Resources & Personnel Management (Kindle Store)
- #623 in Business Teams
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About the author
Don Yaeger is an award-winning keynote speaker, 11-time New York Times best-selling author, executive coach, and team culture expert.
For the last 30+ years, including his time as Associate Editor of Sports Illustrated magazine, Don has had a front row seat to study the greatest champions of all time.
Don teaches the lessons he's learned from these great champions and team builders to organizations all over the world with live and virtual professional development programs.
To learn more about these programs, and how Don can motivate your team to perform like champions, please visit Don's website at donyaeger.com
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Don Yaeger lives in Tallahassee, FL with his wife Jeanette and their two children Will and Maddie.
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The book is arranged around four pillars and sixteen content areas. Each of the sixteen content areas ends with some “great takeaways”. And they ARE just that, great suggestions for implementing!
The book is loaded with compelling and inspiring stories from the world of sports at the college and professional levels as well as from the business world.
I identified two chapters as standing above the others in terms of importance. I made these selections based on fifty years of observing both high performing teams and managers who were very effective leaders of people and the majority, who don’t know the joy of seeing empowered team members perform independently, effectively, and with passion.
My first “great” chapter: Great Teams Understand Their “Why”. The author describes in detail how the Olympic men’s USA basketball team recovered from losing its sense of purpose, playing for our Country. Jerry Colangelo was brought in in 2005 to be the managing director of USA basketball. He spoke of wanting our players to regain respect for what it meant to represent our country.
Colangelo brought in Mike Krzyzewski to help lead this reshaping of team culture. There are several significant “feel-it” experiences that members of the 2008 and 2012 shared, which reminded players of how blessed they were to be representing their country. The team visit to Arlington National Cemetery saw a soldier paying respects to his fallen comrades. Coach K asked the man to speak with the team, and everyone gathered around to listen to his spontaneous, moving words. When he finished and departed, Krzyzewski turned to his players and said, “This is why we came here—to feel our country.” Kevin Durant, now a member of the Golden State Warriors, said he was forever changed by the visit to Arlington National Cemetery.
My second “great” chapter: Great Teams Speak a Different Language. The team leader of this kind of team is entirely positive, focuses team members on learning, what can be improved, and having fun. Coach Pete Carroll of the Seattle Seahawks is featured.
Jack Clark, head rugby coach for the University of California supercharges his team culture with a secret weapon: praise. He takes what would be a Gallup, Inc., strengths-based approach to coaching. Clark says he spends 70 percent of his conversations on the best qualities of his players. This approach has created opportunities for his team to maximize their strengths in a way that completely overwhelms—and overpowers—opponents. Clark says, “My players leave our individual meetings walking on top of the world.”
Yeager’s great takeaways for this chapter: be an example for others to follow; ask the right questions; use effective verbal praise; affirm character; and know how and where to affirm. He offers specific suggestions as to how to accomplish each takeaway.
I chose to capture both these chapters to use with team leaders interested in improving their teams. They arm the team leader with a purpose around which members can gravitate. They also provide valuable resources like ongoing learning mindsets and opportunities, a positive culture where all are seen as winners, and a strengths-based focus that permits everyone to continue their ongoing competency improvement and contributions to team goals.
The book can serve as a good reference text; it can be used when facing specific team challenges, perhaps even pulling examples from the text to share with a team. It can also be used to scrimmage with, to let certain concepts or ideas or points of view become the new you, the improved you. Becoming an effective leader is a “law of the farm” concept, using the words of Stephen Covey; it’s developmental, ongoing.
Yeager is most deserving of this five-star rating!!!
Time-aware professionals further along in their development will see a few nuggets of substance with redundantly overwrought fluff.
"Switch" is a much more applicable book with the same info presented succinctly.
However, it is a book worth reading and learning from.
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