Team Players and Teamwork: The New Competitive Business Strategy

by Glenn M. Parker

A quick, clear way to learn about teamwork, with a useful framework for identifying critical roles of team players.
--Peter Block This handbook will help you focus on what makes a good team player. It draws on stories of more than fifty team-driven organizations?including Xerox, Honeywell, General Motors, and 3M?to give you proven evidence of the qualities of high performing teams. You'll Here's a practical guide for your team leaders and members who need to maintain their competitive advantage through teamwork.

Genres: Business

178 pages, Hardcover

First published August 16, 1990

About the author

Glenn Parker is an internationally recognized workshop facilitator, organizational consultant, and conference speaker in the area of teamwork, collaboration, and team meetings. He is the author of sixteen books including the bestsellers Cross Functional Teams: Working with Allies, Enemies and other Strangers, and Team Players and Teamwork: New Strategies for Developing Successful Collaboration. Glenn’s widely-used instrument the Parker Team Player Survey has sold more than one million copies, and his seminal work on team-player styles was featured in a bestselling CRM video.

As a consultant for more than forty years, Glenn Parker has helped create high-performing teams at hundreds of organizations including Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Merck & Company, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Philips-Van Heusen, Telcordia Technologies, BOC Gases, and the U. S. Coast Guard.

Glenn holds a Master’s degree from the University of Illinois and studied for the doctorate at Cornell University. Through his philanthropic endeavors, he has raised over $1.5 million for cancer research.

Reviews

[Drew · Rating 4 out of 5]

Parker's work on teams while not widely read is spot on.

[Joe Bush · Rating 5 out of 5]

A different look at the types of people that make up teams. Interesting read.

[Lynne · Rating 5 out of 5]

When I worked in business at HP, I found this book extremely helpful in understanding the behavior of others on a team. It also gave me insight into my own teamwork behavior. Very useful for those who want to improve teams and/or cope with being on an ineffective team.