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How To Build Winning Teams Trilogy #1
How To Build Winning Teams Again And Again
Winner - INDEPENDENT PRESS AWARD 2025 (Business: General)
This is book #1 of a nonfiction trilogy: How To Build Winning Teams Again And Again. Written by former CEO and executive coach, James Scouller, the trilogy is the first series of handbooks to explain the psychology, action principles and roadmaps behind team success.
Book #1 explains what you need to KNOW about teams and their psychology. Book #2 outlines what you need to DO to build teams that last. Book #3 explains HOW to apply Book #2’s models and tools in different scenarios. So the trilogy’s sequence is Theory – Practical – Applied.
Book One: The Psychology and Basics
In this first book, James Scouller exposes hidden team traps, introduces the Team Progression Curve and unveils the three psychological challenges—Commit, Combust, Combine. You'll discover too why so many senior executive groups struggle to become genuine teams.
Book One: What To Expect
New insights: What stops work groups in your company succeeding. How teams differ from other work groups. The psychological hurdles your teams face. The new Team Progression Curve model. The new Commit-Combust-Combine team psychology model.
Book One: What You'll Gain From Reading It
For team leaders – eye-opening insights to boost your team’s results and make teamwork fulfilling.
For CEOs or Chief People Officers – the chance to gain a competitive edge in human collaboration.
Next Step in the Trilogy: Book Two – The Action Model (for more context)
Move from theory to action with a seven-principle (7P) model offering practical tips to nail the psychological hurdles described in book #1 and transform your teams.
Elevate your team, elevate your results
Visit James Scouller’s Leadership Mastery Suite website for even more tools.
This is book #1 of a nonfiction trilogy: How To Build Winning Teams Again And Again. Written by former CEO and executive coach, James Scouller, the trilogy is the first series of handbooks to explain the psychology, action principles and roadmaps behind team success.
Book #1 explains what you need to KNOW about teams and their psychology. Book #2 outlines what you need to DO to build teams that last. Book #3 explains HOW to apply Book #2’s models and tools in different scenarios. So the trilogy’s sequence is Theory – Practical – Applied.
Book One: The Psychology and Basics
In this first book, James Scouller exposes hidden team traps, introduces the Team Progression Curve and unveils the three psychological challenges—Commit, Combust, Combine. You'll discover too why so many senior executive groups struggle to become genuine teams.
Book One: What To Expect
New insights: What stops work groups in your company succeeding. How teams differ from other work groups. The psychological hurdles your teams face. The new Team Progression Curve model. The new Commit-Combust-Combine team psychology model.
Book One: What You'll Gain From Reading It
For team leaders – eye-opening insights to boost your team’s results and make teamwork fulfilling.
For CEOs or Chief People Officers – the chance to gain a competitive edge in human collaboration.
Next Step in the Trilogy: Book Two – The Action Model (for more context)
Move from theory to action with a seven-principle (7P) model offering practical tips to nail the psychological hurdles described in book #1 and transform your teams.
Elevate your team, elevate your results
Visit James Scouller’s Leadership Mastery Suite website for even more tools.
226 pages, Paperback
Published January 11, 2024
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About the author
James Scouller
4 books11 followersJames Scouller is an executive coach, thought leader and author. His fascination with leadership has dominated his working life over the last 45 years. It’s been the golden thread connecting his four books. What sets his work apart? His focus on the previously ignored psychological challenges facing leaders and their teams.
His first book was The Three Levels of Leadership, a self-help manual for leaders. It offered readers groundbreaking models and tools for growing their presence, knowhow and skill. Launched into a crowded leadership book space with little promotional backing, it received five-star reviews around the world largely through word-of-mouth.
His new trilogy, How To Build Winning Teams Again And Again, came out in January 2024. James sees this as a companion series to “Three Levels”. It took him 15 years to research, test and write. Book one in the trilogy won the 2025 Independent Press Award (Business: General).
After living and working in different countries he led three international companies as CEO for 11 years before founding his executive coaching practice, The Scouller Partnership, in 2004. Today, when he’s not writing, he coaches leaders and their teams. He has two postgraduate coaching qualifications and trained in applied psychology for four years at the UK Institute of Psychosynthesis. He also holds a 4th Dan black belt in Aikido, a Japanese martial art.
His first book was The Three Levels of Leadership, a self-help manual for leaders. It offered readers groundbreaking models and tools for growing their presence, knowhow and skill. Launched into a crowded leadership book space with little promotional backing, it received five-star reviews around the world largely through word-of-mouth.
His new trilogy, How To Build Winning Teams Again And Again, came out in January 2024. James sees this as a companion series to “Three Levels”. It took him 15 years to research, test and write. Book one in the trilogy won the 2025 Independent Press Award (Business: General).
After living and working in different countries he led three international companies as CEO for 11 years before founding his executive coaching practice, The Scouller Partnership, in 2004. Today, when he’s not writing, he coaches leaders and their teams. He has two postgraduate coaching qualifications and trained in applied psychology for four years at the UK Institute of Psychosynthesis. He also holds a 4th Dan black belt in Aikido, a Japanese martial art.
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March 6, 2024
James Scouller has written a trilogy and this is book one. In this book he walks the reader through the psychological make up of various types of teams. If you already have a team this information would be helpful in evaluating your team and how to use the strategies discussed further in the trilogy to accomplish a winning team. If you are in the process of building a team the information in this book would be a great tool to have when deciding on team members. If you are leaving team, this information would be an important reflective tool. This book does a wonderful job providing a framework for strategies that when put to use would create an unstoppable dynamic team capable of a lot of success.
July 5, 2024
Step One - What you need to know about the psychological challenges of creating teams.
How To Build Winning Teams Again and Again: Book 1 is a thought-provoking and insightful guide that delves into the psychological intricacies of team building.
This first book serves as a foundational piece, being an essential starting point for leaders and managers seeking to navigate the complex terrain of team building. This complexity comes from many aspects:
• A team may not be a team!
• Team or teamwork?
• Team building takes time (that you may not have).
The use of the Team Progression Curve helps to address these, and many other points, by providing a realistic representation of the three forms of small work groups (Task Groups, Performance, and Teams), each of which require different ways of managing and leading.
In this first book of the Trilogy, James Scouller, with a wealth of experience, presents a compelling case for the importance of mastering the art of creating, leading, and regenerating teams, and sets the scene for the pathway to success in team building provided in Books 2 and 3.
How To Build Winning Teams Again and Again: Book 1 is a thought-provoking and insightful guide that delves into the psychological intricacies of team building.
This first book serves as a foundational piece, being an essential starting point for leaders and managers seeking to navigate the complex terrain of team building. This complexity comes from many aspects:
• A team may not be a team!
• Team or teamwork?
• Team building takes time (that you may not have).
The use of the Team Progression Curve helps to address these, and many other points, by providing a realistic representation of the three forms of small work groups (Task Groups, Performance, and Teams), each of which require different ways of managing and leading.
In this first book of the Trilogy, James Scouller, with a wealth of experience, presents a compelling case for the importance of mastering the art of creating, leading, and regenerating teams, and sets the scene for the pathway to success in team building provided in Books 2 and 3.
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