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The best teams are more than the sum of their parts, but why does collaboration so often fail to fulfill this promise? In Dream Teams, Snow takes us on an adventure through history, neuroscience, psychology, and business, exploring what separates groups that simply get by together from those that get better together.
You'll learn:
* How ragtag teams—from soccer clubs to startups to gangs of pirates—beat the odds throughout history.
* Why DaimlerChrysler flopped while the Wu-Tang Clan succeeded, and the surprising factor behind most failed mergers, marriages, and partnerships.
* What the Wright Brothers' daily arguments can teach us about group problem solving.
* Pioneering women in law enforcement, unlikely civil rights collaborators, and underdog armies that did the incredible together.
* The team players behind great social movements in history, and the science of becoming open-minded.
Provocative and entertaining, Dream Teams is a landmark work that will change the way we think about people, progress, and collaboration.
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Release date
June 5, 2018 -
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9780735217805
- File size: 13367 KB
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- ISBN: 9780735217805
- File size: 13367 KB
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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Starred review from May 15, 2018
Entrepreneur, journalist, and author Snow (Smartcuts, 2014) explains how the composition of teams can make or break ideas, progress, and even the outcomes of battles. Using a combination of historical events (like the Battle of New Orleans, against the British, with General Andrew Jackson at the helm) and psychological research, Snow's narrative and perspective are clear: to become stronger, work must be collective in certain ways. The magic includes a team that incorporates a mix of life experiences (aka cognitive diversity), accepts conflict, has at least one provocateur or troublemaker, and embraces open-mindedness, among other attributes. None of the Dream Team mandates will necessarily come as a surprise. The most successful mergers and acquisitions, for instance, endorse the notion of banning organizational silence. On the other hand, Snow provides a well-written, often-funny, and sometimes-sobering way to ensure that work matters?and gets results. A question-and-answer afterword from the coauthors of Option B (2017), Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant, plus a Dream Teams cheat sheet will further solidify Snow's fan base.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2018, American Library Association.)
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