Customer Reviews
Simple, But Important Steps to Team-Based Success - By: Donald Mitchell, 25 May 2004 
All of us know & can do more than any one of us. That's the logic that makes everyone understand the potential of teams. Just watch a championship sports team, & imagine trying to overcome them by yourself. Fat chance!
Yet when teams gets started, they often work less well than an individual. What's needed to get from here to there? That's what this book is all about.
A common problem is putting a team together, giving them a task, & waiting for the good results. That won't work. People have to have the right skills, knowledge, information, tools, & attitude to perform. That includes experience with working together on teams. For example, if you put a bunch of Internet-oriented people together on a team to play basketball against the Lakers, the results might not be too good for your new team. Bill Jenson's book, Simplicity, is a good resource on this point, as well.
This book does a good job of showing you how you can help the green team become the great team. If you want to enjoy more successin your enterprise, this book is essential reading.
Very Stodgy old fashioned presentational style - By: , 10 Aug 2001 
I'm afraid that whenever I hear Patrick Allen I start thinking of the four minute warning!
The conversational style of the one minute manager books comes over wellin print but looses greatlyin this format, with this narrator.
the information is basic & availablein better forms elsewhere, (Industrial society "Teambuilding",& many others).
I wish I'd spent my money on something else.
