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November 21 · Issue #233 · View online
🦉 A weekly sample of links that made me think 🤔
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Thinking… Over the years I have collected and collated a long list of great references about how to go about building great teams. This is a summary of some of the better ones for those who might be interested. I love you to pass back any you have come across that I don’t have in here. ********************************************************* The creation of lasting success, hinges to a large degree on the creation of great teams. Google believes there are five key dynamics that set successful teams apart from other teams ( rework)
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Psychological safety:Â Can we take risks on this team without feeling insecure or embarrassed?
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Dependability:Â Can we count on each other to do high quality work on time?
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Structure & clarity:Â Are goals, roles, and execution plans on our team clear?
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Meaning of work:Â Are we working on something that is personally important for each of us?
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Impact of work: Do we fundamentally believe that the work we’re doing matters?
There are many great resources exploring the concepts of forming and sustaining great teams. This post provides a summary of the ones I have found most interesting and useful. To structure the review, I have split the resources into 5 broad categories.
- What is a great Team?
- Team, Change and leadership Theory
- Understanding personality’s and Team member capabilities
- Launch — getting the team up and running
- Tools, Systems and Artifacts
1. What is a Great Team? 2. Team, Change and Leadership Theory 3. Understanding personality’s and Building Team Member Capabilities 4. Launch — getting the team up and running - Getting to know each other
5. Effective meetings — Agenda, Impact Filter, Minutes from meeting 5. Tools, Systems and Artifacts Books that provide lots of good team building information
- Drive — Dan Pink
- 7 Habits of Highly effective people — Stephen Covey
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Dream Teams — Working together without falling apart — Shane Snow
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The Culture Code — Daniel Coyle
- Turn the Ship Around! A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders — David Marquet
- Slack — Tom Demarco
- The Score Takes Care of Itself — Bill Walsh
- Simple Habits for Complex Times- Powerful Practices for Leaders — Jennifer Garvey Berger, Keith Johnston -
- The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization: First Edition — Peter Senge
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The Power of Moments — Chip and Dan Heath
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team — Patrick Lencoini
- Drucker — The Effective Executive
- Who Not How — Dan Sullivan
- Practical Kanban: From Team Focus to Creating Value — Klaus Leopold
- This is Lean — Resolving the Efficiency Paradox — Niklas Modig
- Radical Focus: Achieving Your Most Important Goals with Objectives and Key Results — Christina Wodtke
- The Team that Managed Itself — Christina Wodtke
- The Art of Action — how leaders close the gaps between plans, actions and results — Bungay Stephen
- The 4 Disciplines of Execution — Chris McChesney; Sean Covey; Jim Huling
- Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration — Ed Catmull
- Team of Teams- New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World — Stanley McChrystal
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