In this book, a young management scholar explores the worlds
of professional sports and high performance athletes as well as the
latest social and psychological research to reveal counterintuitive
lessons about teams. Why is it so hard to get teams to perform to
their potential? How can people work more effectively together on
teams? Why does conflict happen even when intentions are aligned -
and is that conflict harmful, or can it actually help the group
dynamic? Key business dilemmas such as these, according to
Cambridge University professor Mark de Rond, mimic many of the
issues faced on sports teams. Yet the sports metaphors commonly
used in business are often trite and superficial comparisons that
actually mask the substantial lessons that managers can learn from
the world of high performance athletics. Enter "There is an I in
Team". Combining the latest social and psychological research with
stories from world-class sports teams and high performance
athletes, the book tests many of our most popular notions about
teams and teaches a new way to view team potential as a path to
business advantage. 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. You''ll learn: why the same
qualities that make team members attractive can also make them bad
teammates; why the best teams are in constant need of repair; why
likeability trumps competence in even the most technically
sophisticated environments; why a focus on interpersonal harmony
will destroy team performance and kill the team; and, why
statistics, analytics and other "moneyball" techniques can never
replace the role of intuition in predicting individual and team
performance. At once readable and teachable, "There is an I in
Team" will give managers an understanding of the issues that
permeate high performance teams and help them apply those insights
to their own work-giving both manager and team the competitive
edge.
關於作者：
Mark de Rond is an associate professor of Strategy and
Organization at Judge Business School, Cambridge University. His
last book, The Last Amateurs, was selected by the Financial Times
as one of the best business books of 2008.
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