Superteams

This title offers a detailed look at the effect superteams have had on the sports world. Clear text, compelling images, and helpful sidebars and infographics make this book an accessible and engaging read.

In Superteams, renowned teamwork specialist Khoi Tu explains how to make sure your team delivers consistently superior results and emerges stronger from the inevitable crises you will face. What do the SAS, Ferrari and the Rolling Stones have in common? Their success is about much more than talented individuals. They are Superteams. Every organisation, whether a business or a sports club, lives or dies by the quality of its teamwork. No man can be an island for long; only great teams can face a crisis and emerge stronger. So how do you build the right team? Many people think of it like a rock supergroup: bring the best of the best together and magic will happen. Yet supergroups often flop, while bands of unknowns rise to the top. In this incisive and inspirational book, renowned teamwork specialist Khoi Tu explains how to make sure your team delivers consistently superior results, whatever your aim: averting business failure or resolving political conflict, dealing with a hostage situation or leading your team to sporting victory. Superteams takes seven legendary teams - including animation studio Pixar, Europe's 2010 Rider Cup winners, and the people behind the Northern Ireland peace process - and analyses their inner workings, evolution and defining moments. 'This book shows what people can do when the going gets tough and there's a goal to be achieved. Nice one Khoi' Jamie Oliver Khoi Tu is a sought-after leadership and teamwork consultant. He has advised some of the world's most influential individuals and companies, including banks, oil giants, celebrity chefs, Formula One champions and private equity entrepreneurs. A graduate of LSE and INSEAD, he took key roles at Shell and online marketing specialist Razorfish. He founded the Panthea consultancy in 2002 and now runs the boutique advisory company Inverstar. www.superteams.org

Build Teams That SUPER PERFORM Every Day It may seem impossible at times but you can increase productivity, innovation, loyalty, and retention in your organization—dramatically. And it's a lot simpler than you think. In fact, it takes only one thing: RESPECT. Carrots and Sticks Don't Work author Paul Marciano teams up with HR guru Clinton Wingrove to reveal their exciting new system for creating the kinds of teams that transform organizations. The secret lies in developing ordinary employees into highly engaged team members who, in turn, create powerful teams that make exceeding expectations their daily practice. SuperTeams gives you the inspiration, tools, and evidence-based practices you need to kick your teams into overdrive--starting today. The system is composed of seven easy-to-implement elements: Recognition Empowerment Supportive feedback Partnering Expectations Consideration Trust When you fuel your teams with RESPECT, amazing things happen. Employee engagement skyrockets, dormant creativity is unleashed, productivity increases--and profitability soars. Filled with assessment questions, mini quizzes, and hands-on exercises, this engaging guide gives you everything you need in today's workplace--whether it's a small business operating in a traditional setting or a global corporation with team members in several locations. Create a RESPECT-ful culture in your workplace and transform ordinary teams into Super-Teams. PRAISE FOR SUPERTEAMS: "Today we must cultivate creative, productive, loyal, resourceful workforces. Sound impossible? With SuperTeams's original RESPECT Model, you have everything you need to build and motivate an engaged, highly effective organization." -- Marshall Goldsmith, author of the New York Times bestseller What Got You Here Won't Get You There "Practical and valuable. Paul and Clinton provide methods to help create, motivate, and sustain SuperTeams that consistently deliver and exceed customer expectations." -- Michelle Mosolgo, Executive Director Enterprise Programs, Merck "SuperTeams conveys the extraordinary power of the RESPECT Model of team development. It should be read by everyone involved in creating or building teams." -- Herb Greenberg, PhD, CEO and founder, Caliper "Leaders form strategy and create strong and committed teams of talented and motivated people that produce extraordinary business success. Paul and Clinton have covered this critical aspect eloquently in their book. Ignore it at your peril!" -- Roger Phillips, former CEO, Iveco Ford Ltd. "Marciano and Wingrove provide an indispensable guide for all team members and leaders seeking to create a SuperTeam and exceed their customers' expectations." -- Beverly Kaye, coauthor of Love 'Em or Lose 'Em: Getting Good People to Stay

How can you build on your people's strengths? How can you encourage them to do superb work? How can you enable them to achieve the team's picture of perfection? Great teams are built on similarity of spirit and diversity of strengths. Diversity of spirit is a recipe for disaster. Great teams also have the right balance of Soul Players and Star Players - they have no Semi-detached Players.

Management development guide on the role of successful team work in organization development, with particular reference to the UK - describes benefits of increased management efficiency, planning in working groups, etc.; explains selection of group leaders; includes case studies of joint ventures and mergers, etc.

Sarah Buchanan lives a quiet, small town life, hiding one dangerous secret. She’s the world-famous superhero known as Skyrider, leader of the government-sanctioned superteam the Covenant. Not even her husband knows about her dual life. When a legion of superpowered dervishes declare war on America, the Covenant must work around the clock to track down the mastermind behind them. With Sarah spending less and less time and home, and her excuses running thin on why she keeps showing up covered with bruises, the strain on her marriage reaches a breaking point. She wants nothing more than to quit being Skyrider and return to ordinary life, but when ghosts from her past threaten the world she faces the ultimate test: Can she save the world and still save her marriage?

Super-sized facts, players, and stats about the biggest game in the world.

The new soccer season is here, and Harvey has spent his entire life savings on a pair of Armadillo Aces – the best cleats money can buy! Everything seems great until Professor Gertie accidentally destroys the cleats while testing her newest invention! (She was only trying to help.) To make matters worse, rich kid Jackie Spoyle announces her evil plan to form a new “super team.” She is offering the latest sports equipment (free, from her family’s store) to lure the best players ... and she’s after The Team!

This book includes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 15th Annual RoboCup International Symposium, held in Istanbul, Turkey, in July 2011. The 12 revised papers and 32 poster presentation presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 97 submissions. The papers are orginazed on topical sections on robot hardware and software, perception and action, robotic cognition and learning, multi-robot systems, human-robot interaction, education and edutainment and applications.

The only way to achieve successful business change is by engaging employees and making the transformation people-centric. This book explains how to achieve this. Written by a leading voice in the change management industry who has both academic and practitioner experience, People-Centric Organizational Change is a practical guide for change professionals and postgraduate students. It covers everything from what people-centric change is and why it's essential to engage people with the change through to the importance of the communication of change and how to do this effectively with a distributed workforce in a hybrid working environment. Using evidence-based research, this book fully explores the human dynamic of change, explains how to promote collaboration between colleagues and shows how to involve line managers in the change process. There is also advice on how to encourage staff to see change as an opportunity rather than a threat. People-Centric Organizational Change also includes discussion of the impact of change on employee wellbeing as well as the relationship between Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and change. There is also advice on how to build people-centric initiatives into an overall change strategy. It is full of country agnostic tools and tips that can be used across cultures as well as frameworks and skills that can be applied in public, private and third sector settings. Global case studies and examples throughout help to put the content into context and show how a people-first approach to change works in practice. Online resources include PowerPoint slides for each chapter.