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16 Things High Performing Organizations Do Differently
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Steven Roy Grimsley
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Don Yaeger
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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.
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- Carlos
- 09-02-19
A must read for any leader.
If you are a leader this is a must read for you. Don speaks to some of the most successful organizations on the planet and gives us an insight into what they are doing correctly. This is a great starting place for anyone starting off as a leader or trying to refresh themselves on what leadership is all about.
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- am
- 09-29-17
a must for everyone on a team or leading one
what an amazing set of insights from the most amazing coaches, we'll written and insightful
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- Andrew Lamb
- 03-27-17
Excellent book with practical takeaways & examples
This was an easy listen and had many great points I've been sharing with my team. If you want to increase your leadership lid, listen to this book... preferably more than once!
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- Arlo!
- 10-08-22
Go Buy The Book
There was so much great information in this book; I now need to go get the book so i can underline and journal the key points.
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- Lebo
- 02-02-23
Okay read
Great book I sometimes got lost in the American sports analysis however the business narrative makes up for it
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- Dale
- 06-22-17
Absolutely Fantastic
This is one of the best books Ive listened to in the last 200 years. The analogies the speak to business and sports are exquisite.
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- James F.
- 12-30-17
Eh.
Not a lot of new thought here, mostly repetition of previously published material by other authors, but from a team perspective.
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- Bill
- 09-17-17
Sorry, I was disappointed-
What disappointed you about Great Teams?
He is a good author and motivational team building coach, but in this book, it's filled with too many comparisons of Sports teams etc. It seems that he is trying to impress everyone of his knowledge of sports history instead of talking or instructing about how to build teams from the ground up and strengthening them. Just too many continuous references to sports for me. I was looking for the meat of Teams, not to learn about sports history.
What was most disappointing about Don Yaeger’s story?
sports references..........
Would you be willing to try another one of Steven Roy Grimsley’s performances?
sure
If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Great Teams?
almost everything related to sports
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- KH
- 07-26-16
Big disappointment
The book was academic and obvious in its deduction. The "great takeaways" were anything but that.
Waste of time!!
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- Joe Kay
- 05-24-23
A dumbed down collection of sport statistics
This must be THE least creative of leadership books. A boring run down of stories from the sports world, as though sports and the “real” world are the same. Disappointing.
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