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"Finally, a book that goes beyond the 'how-to' of team building and answers the critical question, 'How do I create a collaborative organization that reaps the harvest of long-term investment in teams?' The 'ten principles of collaborative organizations' outlined in this book are invaluable."
â Seth McCutcheon, CEO, Domicile Design Group LLC
The flagship book for the new Collaborative Work Systems Series,
Beyond Teams provides an overview of this growing field, defines the basic principles, and points the direction toward a series of books. You'll find a framework designed to help you understand the potential and the means of achieving it throughout the key functions of business.
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A Must Have!.......2005-09-09
This is a wonderful book and a must have for anyone looking to strengthen their organization. It is full of clear, logical instructions on how to make everyone come together. This book was worth the money and time!
Great addition to your OD/OB toolbox.......2003-09-15
"Beyond Teams" is an excellent reference for anyone interested in charting or changing results in their collaborative networks. From the standpoint of anyone involved in Organizational Behavior/Organizational Development, from manager, practitioner, academic, consultant or team member, this book provides many useful insights and has the feel of actual fieldwork used in its writing. The book is laid out in such a manner that it can be applied in any given situation. The ten guiding principles are structured and repeated in various collaborative work settings consistently. This allows the reader to apply the principles in their unique setting. The ten guiding principles are then explained for each general situation with a short description given for when the principles are not working and, more importantly, when they are working. Too often in this field books are written from a purely academic viewpoint or "this is how you fix it" approach. This book is different in that you can sense the fieldwork in the research and you see how things are supposed to work as well as when they are not working. This gives the reader the option of working on a group's deficiencies while complementing their achievements. This book is a "must have" for anyone interested in improving team communications.
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Game theory is central to modern understandings of how people deal with problems of coordination and cooperation. Yet, ironically, it cannot give a straightforward explanation of some of the simplest forms of human coordination and cooperation--most famously, that people can use the apparently arbitrary features of "focal points" to solve coordination problems, and that people sometimes cooperate in "prisoner's dilemmas." Addressing a wide readership of economists, sociologists, psychologists, and philosophers, Michael Bacharach here proposes a revision of game theory that resolves these long-standing problems.
In the classical tradition of game theory, Bacharach models human beings as rational actors, but he revises the standard definition of rationality to incorporate two major new ideas. He enlarges the model of a game so that it includes the ways agents describe to themselves (or "frame") their decision problems. And he allows the possibility that people reason as members of groups (or "teams"), each taking herself to have reason to perform her component of the combination of actions that best achieves the group's common goal. Bacharach shows that certain tendencies for individuals to engage in team reasoning are consistent with recent findings in social psychology and evolutionary biology.
As the culmination of Bacharach's long-standing program of pathbreaking work on the foundations of game theory, this book has been eagerly awaited. Following Bacharach's premature death, Natalie Gold and Robert Sugden edited the unfinished work and added two substantial chapters that allow the book to be read as a coherent whole.
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Highly creative and thoughtful contribution.......2007-06-23
There is a group of economists, decision theorists, and philosophers who have been grappling with the inability of decision theory to extend to the interaction of agents for the past two decades. They include Michael Bacharach, Robert Sugden, Robin Cubitt, Susan Hurley, Raimo Tuomela, Michael Bratman, Margaret Gilbert, Natalie Gold, John Searle, and Andrew Colman. These authors favor some notion of "team reasoning" and/or "collective intentions" (they do not share a common set of terms, so I choose a couple of prominent variants). The subject is as difficult as it is important, and these authors are discussing the issues with considerable insight. Their findings should be shared with the school of strategic epistemology initiated by Robert Aumann, and well represented in economics journals. Unfortunately, economics journals generally value an epsilon of rigor over an plenitude of insight, and hence these authors have not graced the pages of Econometrica, Games and Economic Behavior, and the like. Pity.
I will concentrate on Bacharach's arguments in this book, but the reader should recognize that the field is new and changing rapidly, so my remarks may well not apply to newer contributions to the research paradigm. Bacharach uses simple games to illustrate the weakness of Bayesian decision theory and the power of team reasoning. The first is Hi-Lo, in which two player must choose simultaneously either "Hi" or "Lo". If both choose Hi, each gets payoff 2; if both choose Lo, each gets payoff 1; otherwise, each gets payoff 0. This game is a pure coordination game, meaning that the payoffs to the two payers is equal no matter what their actions. The game has two strict Nash equilibria, one with payoff 2 and another with payoff 1, and a mixed strategy equilibrium with payoff 2/3. There is only one "rational" choice, however, consisting of both players choosing Hi, although there is absolutely no way for this to be concluded through decision-theoretic reasoning. However, real human subject almost always choose this "rational" equilibrium. Hence, people must use forms of reasoning that go beyond Bayesian rationality. The "team reasoning" researchers aim to discover the content of these forms of reasoning.
Bacharach has chosen a poor example to make his case. Bayesian decision-makers have a subjective prior over every relevant contingency. If a player has absolutely no information concerning the expected behavior of his partner, the Law of Insufficient Reason dictates placing equal probability on each of his possible actions. In this case, this means assuming his partner will choose Hi with probability ½, in which case choosing Hi is an individual best response.
The second example is the famous prisoners' dilemma, in which each player has a strictly dominant strategy of Defect, although both do well if both players choose Cooperate. The authors note that standard game theory predicts that both players will Defect, while "team reasoning" suggests that both will Cooperate, provided that somehow it is "common knowledge" that they are a team. The authors note that in the real world, about 40% to 50% of human subjects play Cooperate in experimental prisoners' dilemma games (in a sequential prisoners' dilemma, the frequency rises to 80% and even higher). However, "team reasoning" is certainly not needed to understand this result. A more plausible candidate is that players have "other-regarding preferences," meaning they care not only about their own payoff, but about being fair and equitable as well. Moreover, other-regarding preferences explain the behavior of players in many games besides the prisoners' dilemma, including trust games, common pool resource games, dictator games, and the like.
Bacharach apparently does not like the interactive epistemologists who base their analysis on Bayesian decision theory, if we are to judge by his references to their ideas, which are few and generally critical. This is a shame, because the real problems with extending decision theory to the interaction of rational agents have been amply documented by the interactive epistemologists. The general problem is that there is no reason within decision theory for "rational agents" to align their beliefs in such a way as to entail Nash equilibrium behavior, and decision theory offers no alternative equilibrium concept. The reason "team reasoning" is an interesting idea at all is that it could possibly provide an alternative methodology for game theory.
I doubt that it takes much courage for a philosopher to propose a notion of "collective intentionality" or "team reasoning", because both seem to exist. It does take courage, however, for a traditionally trained economist to posit a notion of non-individualist reasoning, and Bacharach is to be admired for his willingness to pursue this mode of reasoning. However, I am not convinced that this is the correct path to take. Michael Bacharach's title "Beyond Individual Choice" accurately portrays what these thinkers are trying to conceptualize, but they uniformly refuse to go "beyond subjective choice." That is, they share with traditional decision theory the notion that aggregate outcomes are the product of individual decisions made by self-regarding agents, a doctrine known as Methodological Individualism. By contrast, these thinkers may be deemed Methodological Subjectivists, because they believe outcomes are the product of individual decisions, but that individuals can use "team reasoning" and have "collective intentions." This view does not have any unambiguous empirical support, and behaviors that can be explained by "team reasoning" can be more simply explained by the desire of individuals to conform to social norms.
Methodological subjectivism is almost certainly incorrect. But it is also unnecessary. Human psychology coevolved with human society, in a process known as gene-culture coevolution. One of the effects of gene-culture coevolution is that humans are capable of recognizing a special category of events that might be called "public events." A public event is something that when it occurs, becomes automatically common knowledge among the event's observers. For instance, if Alice and Carol are sipping wine, and Bob enters the room and says "Dinner will be ready in five minutes," this is a pubic event, because it is then common knowledge among the three individuals that Bob announced that dinner will be ready in five minutes.
It may sound incredible, but there is absolutely no principle of individual or interactive decision theory that asserts when an event is a public event, or more generally, when something is common knowledge. The capacity of humans to reason, in particular, bears not implications concerning even the existence of public events. Moreover, the idea that public events could exist apart from individuals, and could be recognized by individuals, lies outside Methodological Subjectivism, for which public events must be described in terms of the mental states of individuals or the reasoning processes of individuals. In fact, public events are either some types of material events (e.g., "it's raining on us") or types of social events (e.g., "the goal of a football team is to get more points that its opponent").
One special type of public event that serves to coordinate the beliefs and hence behaviors of rational agents is what might be called a "social norm," which is common knowledge among members of a society. Since social norms are rarely fully enunciated by an explicit proclamation, it might be better to call them "focal rules," which are the tacit knowledge of all members of society, much as Schelling's "focal" actions. Focal rules, when considered common knowledge by members of society, serve as correlating devices that induce Bayesian rational individuals to align their beliefs efficiently and thus contribute to playing a correlated equilibrium. As Aumann (1987) first noted, the correlated equilibrium, not the Nash equilibrium, is the appropriate solution concept for interactive epistemology.
Another game often invoked in analyzing collective behavior is the Hawk-Dove game. Suppose a territory is worth 6, and two "Doves" always split the territory, with payoff of 3 each. However, if a "Hawk" contests with a Dove over the territory, the Hawk takes the whole thing. Finally, if two Hawks meet, they fight, leading to a loss of 5 for each. There is one Nash equilibrium to this game, in which Hawk is played with probability 3/8, and the payoffs are 15/8 for each player. Suppose there is a focal rule that is common knowledge to all that says that the player who first occupied the territory plays Hawk and the other player plays Dove. Provided "first occupancy" is a public event, this new strategy, which we may call Bourgeois, beats both the Hawk and Dove strategies, and the new correlated equilibrium (with first occupancy being the coordinating event), with expected payoff 3 > 15/8 for each player.
This example is instructive because the existence of territoriality in many mammals and birds indicates that the notion of a public event may be a biological commonality. Of course, the notion that territoriality could be explained in a methodologically subjectivist manner is highly implausible.
I have learned much from the various papers and books of the "team reasoning" thinkers, and the book by Michael Bacharach, Beyond Individual Choice: Teams and Frames in Game Theory, is a fine place to start for the interested behavioral scientist or philosopher. The bibliography of this fine book will serve as a guide to other relevant research in this area.
Bacharach died before his ideas had reached finality in this area, and the task of justifying team reasoning has been left to others. Particularly important are a paper by Cubitt and Sugden (1993) that formaizes David Lewis's model of common knowledge, and a paper by Sugden, "The Logic of Team Reasoning."
Extending Game Theory.......2006-05-02
For quite a few years Michael Bacharach investigated the application of game theory to small group behavior. This book, in process at the time of his unexpected death, was to be his final summary. The heart of the book had been written. And after his death Robert Sugden, a fellow researcher, and Natalie Gold, one of his doctoral students finshed putting the book into a presentable form.
The performance of individuals cooperating in small teams probably goes back to cave man days when the men of two or three families hunted together. Small teams are also common in most sporting events where 5 to 12 or so people play on each side of the contest. The military has formalized this size of grouping in the basic maneuver unit the contubernium of the Roman Legion, the squad in English/Ameican armies.
This book extends the basic rules of game theory to understand what makes people in a team or group work together for the betterment of all.
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The Chicago White Sox are a charter member of the American League. Through a little over a century of baseball, they have accumulated a history of triumphs, scandals, and heartbreaking setbacks. The photographs in this book come from the collections of Leo Labau, Mark Fletcher, and Gerry Bilek, three lifelong White Sox fans. The images show dramatic, emotional, and light moments that could only happen in a baseball game played on the south side of Chicago. In these pages you will find showmen Bill Veeck and Harry Carey, the 1959 World Series, sluggers like Allen, Melton, Zisk, Gamble, and Kittle, and great pitchers like Peters, Horlen, and Wood. There are no world championships in this story, just the great moments of a team that hasgiven its fans great memories.
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The 2006 Champs deserve better than this !.......2006-03-02
Even if you love the White Sox like me, you won't like this book.
As another reviewer wrote "It's got typographical errors. It's got poor sentence structure. The author He's no John Steinbeck; his prose is pedestrian."
Stay away from 1959 and Beyond.
Great book for diehard fans.......2005-08-24
If you are a fan of the Sox and lived and died with them during the past 45 years you will enjoy this book. The pictures alone make this book worth the price. It has rekindled several memories of my visits to Comiskey park. The writing does look un-edited and has some rough spots. Overall this book is a great keepsake for Sox fans.
Does Go Beyond Dull Anyway.......2005-08-03
This Arcadia entry should fill a need for book-starved White Sox fans... Unfortunately, the writing lacks any verve and the picture selection seems pretty dull. These are THE best pictures the publisher could come up with ? An amateur effort, at best.
A Book Only a White Sox Junkie Could Love.......2005-07-19
It's got typographical errors. It's good poor sentence structure. It's got mediocre anecdotes about mediocre players. In short, it's a perfect book about the Chicago White Sox. (As a passionate White Sox fan, I get to say things like that!) Long before their current 2005 "season to remember," the Chicago White Sox were unforgettable losers -- the kind of team only a die-hard fan could care about, year after year after year. I am one such fan, and so is the author. He's no John Steinbeck; his prose is pedestrian. But he loves this team and his book is a lovable one for anyone else who feels the same.
A fascintating history from th efan's viewpoint.......2004-08-13
The author included some unique observations about the "obvious" significant games in White Sox history as well as some not so obvious. Book includes a fantastic number of original photos. An "easy read" great reading for any Chisox or baseball fan.
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"As thorough a history of a Negro league team as can be culled from the available sources... not just the history of a team but the tale of one city in all its social complexity." --The New York Times Book Review An enthralling narrative about a lost era in both baseball and American History, Beyond the Shadow of the Senators reveals the true story of the greatest baseball dynasty most people have never heard of--the Homestead Grays--and how the fight to integrate our national pastime began with this team.
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A Story That Had To Be Told.......2007-02-28
With the backdrop of the emerging black middle-class in segregated Washington, D.C., during World War II, author Brad Snyder tells the compelling story of two baseball clubs and the push to integrate one professional league.
There is Homestead Grays founder Cum Posey, who is looking to relocate his franchise from Pittsburgh before the start of the 1940 season. And there is Clark Griffith, owner of the pathetic Washington Senators, who can briefly shuffle aside his racism for a business deal that will bring a new revenue stream to his bank account when the team is playing away from Griffith Stadium.
This initial tenuous partnership delivered a surprise to Griffith; the Grays exemplary play on the field found them outdrawing the cellar-dwelling Senators and galvanizing a new generation of baseball fans. That success - even with onerous stadium leases common when NLB teams played in facilities used by Major League Baseball clubs - helped propel the integration of MLB in 1947.
The era is also seen through legendary sportswriters Sam Lacy & Wendell Smith, Buck Leonard - the greatest pro first baseman - and in the offices of MLB, especially the Senators.
Griffith - who certainly could have worked out some type of agreement with the Grays for players to bolster the Senators before the Dodgers signed Robinson - was only a pioneer in segregation, integrating his team seven years after Robinson's debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers and ultimately fleeing Washington, D.C., relocating his team to the whiter Minneapolis-St. Paul market.
With the success of Robinson came the slow disintegration of NLB - the league that was truly integrated on the field, in the stands and in the front offices - as MLB teams raided the club rosters for established stars and began scouting & signing younger players to contracts.
Snyder has brought this forgotten period beyond the shadows of the simplistic retelling of the past that plagues all levels American history.
great research.......2005-08-30
Brad is an excellent researcher and writer. This book is not only enjoyable but educational. I met Ted "Double Duty" Radcliffe and Lester Lockett, two former Negro League players, a few years ago and their stories started my interest. Brad fed that interest beautifully. I look forward to Brad's next book on Curt Flood and the reserve clause. His attention to detail is consistent with his legal background.
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Baseball in the Nation's Capital as a Backdrop for a Study in Race Relations.......2005-08-14
Let me be clear, this is a great book, rather than just a very good one. In nine chapters, plus an introduction and conclusion, Washington, D.C., based attorney turned writer has told the powerful and sometimes provocative story of how the Homestead Grays moved to Washington, D.C., and set the stage for the breaking down of the color line in Major League Baseball (MLB). In this important book Brad Snyder moves beyond the singular actions of Branch Rickey's Brooklyn Dodgers and Jackie Robinson, which most people are familiar with, to explore the broader implications of race relations in baseball during the 1940s.
In telling this story, "Beyond the Shadow of the Senators" is filled with heroes and villains. The most significant hero is unquestionably Sam Lacy, a black writer with the "Washington Tribune," a weekly oriented toward D.C.'s large African American community, who consistently called for the desegregation of MLB. Also heroic are the great stars of the Negro Leagues, especially Buck Leonard, Satchel Paige, and Josh Gibson, all of whom came to Washington to play before large crowds in the nation's capital. They demonstrated through their exploits the quality of talent in the Negro leagues, especially when juxtaposed against the hapless play of the Washington Senators of the American League. The villains include Clark Griffith, the financially strapped owner of the Senators whose willingness to rent Griffith Stadium to the Grays proved lucrative, and Grays owner Cumberland Posey who shifted his team from the Pittsburgh area to Washington to cater to the large middle-class African American community in Washington. Both Griffith and Posey had every reason to keep the segregated system intact because of the money they made. Moreover, Griffith was a blatant racist who integrated reluctantly and eventually moved the Senators from Washington to Minneapolis-St. Paul because, as he said in 1978, "you've got good, hardworking white people here" (p. 289).
Ranging broadly from social history to baseball and back, Snyder captures the essence of the history of the Senators, the Grays, and wartime Washington's racial situation. It is a story of love and hate at the same time, as well as the quest for dignity of the minority population in a divided city. "Beyond the Shadow of the Senators" is a powerful book. Enjoy.
An outstanding historical work.......2005-02-18
"Beyond the Shadow of the Senators'' is a must read for any serious student of baseball history. The author put a massive amount of research into this engaging account, of which I knew nothing even though I grew up in Washington not long after these events took place. This is an outstanding work in every regard. I have never met the author and I am not an African-American (not that anybody should care); I am just a fan of baseball and its history. If you are, too: Read this book.
Symbiotic segregation and a great baseball read........2004-02-21
This is a great, and true-to-life (i.e., "complex") story about the institution of 'Negro' League baseball and the various parties who profited and railed against it.
Key people that are introduced and brought to life are:
Buck Leonard, Satchel Paige, and Josh Gibson -- three of the greatest ballplayers who ever lived;
Clark Griffith -- the pioneering, penurious and controlling owner of the Washington Senators;
Sam Lacy -- the ahead-of-his-time, DC-native who tirelessly advocated for the integration of Major League Baseball; as well as
Cum(berland) Posey -- the shrewd owner of the Homestead Grays -- the dominant team of the loosely confederated Negro Leagues during the late 30's and 40's.
Tangential to this story are:
the decimation of the post 1933 Senators, mostly due to finances and an inadequate ballpark;
the relative prosperity of Washington DC during the years of the depression and WWII and the partial equality of African-American government workers that led to a vibrant culture and ability to spend on entertainment;
the move by Posey and his "partner" (many of the Negro League baseball teams were financed by numbers entreprenuers) to Washington from their Pittsburgh home and the welcome of their rental payments and gate pctgs. by Clark Griffith;
Judge Landis' death, the increasing awareness of America's incongruity in its fight for freedom and democracy in Europe while maintaining a virtual apartheid culture at home; and
the greed/opportunity of baseball owners to find the best talent at the lowest price which ultimately led to Rickey's "great experiment");
This book also fleshes out the background and conflict around Jackie Robinson, who was rightly judged to be a great man and the right vehicle for Rickey's efforst, and the shared opinions that he was a good, but not all-time great Negro baseball player. [Check out how well a 42-yr old Satchel Paige pitched for the World Championship Indians in 1948.]
The shifts in attitude between "separate but equal" and complete integration by the various parties reveal primarily self-interest. Judged by the standards of our time, I share many others' great respect for Sam Lacy and his tireless, moral advocacy and feel sorry for the Negro League baseball owners who were mostly left with nothing as they rarely had enforceable contracts that protected their relationship with their players.
Clark Griffith was an "innovator" in attracting inexpensive talent from Cuba. Many of these players represented themselves well on the ballfield but would only be acceptable if they were of "Spanish" descent.
Utterly inconceivable now, but the norm for over 60 years (since Cap Anson helped institute the "gentleman's agreement" against employment of African Americans in the early 1880's) was to allow a Major or Minor League ballclup to employ pretty much anyone (Swedes, Germans, Irish, Italians, Jews, etc.) anyone, except African-Americans.
It has often been discussed that without Jackie Robinson (& the parts played by Branch Rickey, Roy Campanella, Pee Wee Reese, Ben Chapman, etc.) the 1954 "Brown vs. Board of Education" decision would not have happened as quickly.
This book provides a wonderful companion story to the integration of major league baseball which, in my opinion, is one of the most significant stories of 20th Century United States.
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Beyond Dispute: The Invention of Team Syntegrity
Stafford Beer
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Over the last forty years, Stafford Beer has published a steady stream of books and papers in which he has applied cybernetic science to organizational problems. In all of these he has explained underlying principles and developed new theories and recorded a great variety of practical applications. He has now invented and demonstrated Team Syntegrity. Syntegrity is a powerful invention in the organization of normative, directional, and strategic planning, and other creative decision processes. The underlying model is a regular icosahedron (20 sides). This has 30 edges, each of which represents a person. An internal network of interactions is created by a set of protocols. A group organized like this is an ultimate statement of participatory democracy, since each role is indistinguishable from any other. There is no hierarchy, no top, no bottom, no sideways. Beer illustrates how continued dynamic interaction between persons causes ideas and resolutions to hum around the sphere, which reverberates into a kind of group consciousness. Mathematical analysis of the structure shows how the process is determined by the even spread of synergy. The aim of the book is to provide managers and their advisors with a new planning method that captures the native genius of the organization in a non-political and non-hierarchical way. The book includes an enquiry into Beers concept of recursive consciousness, based on this model, that is relevant to both neurocybernetics and the social systems sciences.
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Disputing "Beyond Dispute".......2003-01-22
I am an average person. I read Beer's "Brain of the Firm" back in 1981, and have been a fan since. And yes, I am familiar with Fuller, have built my share of domes and tensegrity models. But this book lost me early on, despite several attempts.
OK, so geodesics was (again) borne out by Buckyballs. What I never got was *why* team interactions are best mapped or modeled by convex polyhedra. Why? It was just as easy to conclude that he arbitrarily selected the icosahedron because it is fascinating.
Do synergy and reverberation really exist in group dynamics? Or is he just ascribing those names? It was never clear to me.
In fairness, I haven't read the epilogue. Let me just say that this is a *difficult* book, even if you are already know Gurdjieff, Euler and the whole pantheon.
The Management |Technique of the 21st century.......1999-12-28
The techniques of management developed in this book are inspired by the polyhedral geometry worked out in detail by the late R Buckminster Fuller with whom I had spent several exclusive hours. Fuller's thoughts and those developed by the author have a resonance with very ancient ieas of organization and action contained in the Hindu philosophy. It would be nice to introduce the system developed by the author and the training regimen inspired by him under "Team Syntegrity" in India where getting anything done is still next to impossible. Anyone who can facilitate this can contact this reviewer via his e-mail: vyomakhil@yahoo.com
The Management |Technique of the 21st century.......1999-12-28
The techniques of management developed in this book are inspired by the polyhedral geometry worked out in detail by the late R Buckminster Fuller with whom I had spent several exclusive hours. Fuller's thoughts and those developed by the author have a resonance with very ancient ieas of organization and action contained in the Hindu philosophy. It would be nice to introduce the system developed by the author and the training regimen inspired by him under "Team Syntegrity" in India where getting anything done is still next to impossible. Anyone who can facilitate this can contact this reviewer via his e-mail: vyomakhil@yahoo.com
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Beyond the Norm: A Salute to Missouri's Norm Stewart
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Beyond the Norm chronicles the playing and coaching career of Norm Stewart, coach of the Missouri Tigers for 32 years. The book includes Stewart's top 10 games as a coach, his work with Coaches Against Cancer, his life off the court, and the records and statistics he established during his coaching career.
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Great read.......1999-08-03
This should win a Pulitzer this year. The content is tremendous, full of insightful garb about the most cantankerous coach to ever pace the hardwood sideline. Plus, one writer in particular really bolsters this literary masterpiece, James D. Horne. Buy this book while supplies last.
Good view of the career of Norm Stewart at Mizzou.......1999-07-08
This is a very good view of the overall career of Norm Stewart at Mizzou. It is unique in it is a compilation of articles from the Columbia Tribune starting with a game in February, 1956 through his retirement this past April, 1999. For the avid Missouri basketball fan it will bring back alot of fond memories and things long forgotten. For the newer fan, it will point out just what kind of coach Norm Stewart was and bring out a side of him alot of people don't know about. For just the rabid basketball fan, it is an interesting look at some of the great upsets by Missouri basketball teams, such as over Notre Dame in 1980 in the NCAA and Louisville in 1982, along with the battles within the Big 8. It's an easy read with alot of good pictures.
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Applying the vivid metaphor of "Fire on Ice", author Nelson "Chris" Stokes begins his account of the Jamaica Bobsleigh Team, citing its spectacular crash at the 1988 Calgary Olympics to its triumphs across world competition. Once a novelty portrayed in the motion picture Cool Runnings, the team has become a phenomenon, quite unlike any other sporting enterprise, prompting journalists and sports historians to rave about its indomitable spirit, its uncanny survival, its crowd-pleasing collective personae.
All this is recorded in Cool Runnings and Beyond: The Story of the Jamaica Bobsleigh Team where team member Stokes describes how, once kindled, this little flame called Jamaica Bobsleigh refused to sputter, but flared like its Olympic counterpart. First dismissed as a gimmick when it burst on the scene at the Calgary Games, Jamaica Bobsleigh began to truly compete, and the world began taking measure.
These islanders from the tropics proved they could race on ice and if given enough practice, funds, and support, they might become medal contenders.
Now president of the Jamaica Bobsleigh Federation, Chris Stokes provides two narratives from his experience as an Olympian and a member of the world bobsleighing community. One details the personalities, those grinding training regimens, and the raw hopes and fears, disasters and determination found behind the familiar media images. Drawing from his experience within the fluid and dynamic demands of marketing Jamaica Bobsleigh, Chris also provides lessons for fundraising, building a vibrant and visionary business, and for those who would seek personal growth in context of teamwork.
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ASIN: 0750646411 |
Book Description
An internationally renowned author offers an overview of how people and jobs can best be connected in a new era.
'Beyond the Team' draws on Meredith Belbin's extensive work with organizations worldwide to give further insights into the workings of teams and groups. The modern job needs to be actively interpreted and constantly revised in terms of the balance between a team role, a work role and a professional role. The increasingly complex demands of modern jobs can be aided by a colour system as tested in international trials. A colour based top down, bottom up form of communication creates sensitive feedback with a special value where members of a workforce do not share common language. The socially complex nature of communication about work in a new era offers parallels with the intricacies of the social insect world. Information technology is extending human networking with the potential of creating a form of organization closer to what can be achieved in superorganisms.
'Beyond the Team' shows how eventually, the mature team can learn to distribute work between its own members by giving a comprehensive understanding of how to manage both team roles and work roles.
Internationally renowned author
Author has advised the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the US Department of Labor, the Commission of the EEC, amongst many others
Video Arts third Belbin film 'Does the Team Work?' has recently been released and connects with this title.
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Advanced Team Training: Tools and Activities for Developing Teams Beyond the Basics
Dennis Kinlaw
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Companies
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Binding: Hardcover
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ASIN: 0079137741 |
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The vast majority of the literature and training material on teams has been devoted almost entirely to the early periods of team formation and development. Trainers and team leaders are now faced not so much with the problems of getting teams organized, trained, and started, as they are with the question of how to help teams achieve superior performance and continuous improvement. Advanced Team Training is a collection of tools and activities for team leaders, trainers, and facilitators. The tools and activities are designed to teach more sophisticated, high-performance techniques to teams that are already up and running, and have learned the basics of teamwork.
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An introduction to working as a productive member of a team, for engineers and other technical professionals. Learn from real-life examples and case studies including how two teams were organized to deal with life-or-death rescue operations after the 2004 tsunami.
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