Working in Teams
Moving From High Potential to High Performance
- Brian A. Griffith - Peabody College, Vanderbilt University
- Ethan B. Dunham - Human Capital Performance Partners
Excellent text and support materials. I will try it for a year and see how the students interact with the materials. Thanks for the desk copy and access to support materials. This allows me to begin designing the class as soon as I adopt the text.
I included the book as a recommended book listing. The course have a particular design aspect, so this would not suitable to become an essential book.
Great book with real applications for examples to use when studying.
The authors brought together a lot of relevant knowledge on teams.
However, to me it appears that the authors confusingly mix all kinds of teams:
e.g. intra-organisational:
1 a stable management team
2 a stable self managing team with a primary process task
3 teams in a projectbased (engineer to order) primary process that live as long as it takes to fulfil the order
4 temporary teams with an innovation or R&D-task (that will change in composition depending on the project-stage)
Esp 3 & 4 may be composed of people from different org's (eg 'us' plus suppliers and customer)
And teams of students in an educational setting have their own peculiarities.
Because of this I will not adopt.
I found the material very relevant and more importantly my students enjoyed the text, which evokes some very meaningful discussions.
Looks good but does not work with our assignments.
This is a really informative useful and interesting book. We will definitely be using it this year and next.
too specific
Great introduction to the topic, touches different aspects of effective teamwork. I've put it on the list of recommended reading.
Very good book for undergraduate leadership students.
