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- In Get Better Teams, veteran team development consultant and founder of TeamUp George Karseras offers a clear and prescriptive code for leaders looking to develop high-performing virtual teams in our rapid-changing digitized age.
- Author(s): George Karseras
- 288 Pages
- Business + Money Management, Mentoring & Coaching
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In Get Better Teams, veteran team development consultant and founder of TeamUp George Karseras offers a clear and prescriptive code for leaders looking to develop high-performing virtual teams in our rapid-changing digitized age.Book Synopsis
In Get Better Teams, veteran team development consultant and founder of TeamUp George Karseras offers a clear and prescriptive code for leaders looking to develop high-performing virtual teams in our rapid-changing digitized age.Review Quotes
"In Build Better Teams, George has tapped into a very simple and usable code to harness all the lessons of yesterday in order to prepare you to build the very best teams of tomorrow. George has cleverly brought this code to life with his stories and examples. He presents a modern day code that parallels a societal trend towards increased vulnerability, honesty and compassion. As I have grown to know George, it's also written by someone with these very same characteristics, so it's a book that has both depth and integrity."
-Ed Stafford, British explorer, host of Discovery Channel's Ed Stafford: First Man Out (excerpted from the foreword)
"Build Better Teams is an insightful book offering leaders a compelling and practical team building 'code' to optimize team performance. Starting with a riveting extreme case study of a team that hiked the entire Amazon, the book is refreshingly grounded in the academic research on what makes teams effective. The book illuminates the challenging relational work that drives great teamwork and provides a well-constructed way forward through this complexity."
--Professor Amy C. Edmondson, Harvard Business School, and author of The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth
"As a fast-growing SME scaling organically over the past few years, I found myself reaching out to George and his team to better understand how to grow, gel, and retain my growing and diverse team. The code he gave us, with a simple method and the clear scientific base, immediately made sense. We soon found we were able to galvanize our team and even improve our recruitment model. The results are clear: under lockdown, we increased our team by 30 percent, doubled sales, and won a Queens Award for Enterprise. Implementing the code in this book has had a significant impact on this positive growth."
--Adrian Thompson, CEO and Founder, image HOLDERS Ltd
"In an age where the solving of vital problems depends more than ever on teams of teams, we have in this a serious book that brings the field of group dynamics into the present. Not only does the book review other models of teamwork, but it builds effectively on them to provide a model that is ready to deal with the ever-growing complexity that organizations will face. Adaptive behavior will not come through great individual heroes but though effectively managed fluid systems of teams. This book is an important addition to the group dynamics literature."
--Edgar H. Schein, Professor Emeritus MIT Sloan School of Management, and coauthor with Peter Schein of Organizational Culture and Leadership, 5th Ed. (2017), Humble Leadership (2018), and Humble Inquiry, Revised Ed. (2021)
"Build Better Teams is a hugely refreshing and inspirational addition to the practice of team-building, being strongly grounded in academic research, accessible, and fun. My personal engagement with the Code was seriously transformational, enabling me to mainstream the values that mattered to me and my team, and to capture and promote the diversity, the individual egos, and talents and create a thriving, single-acting team for which anything seemed possible. This complex and turbulent twenty-first century is an age for inclusion and collaboration, and this new work is a powerful tool. I recommend it to all teams and team-builders. It's a book that will remain on my desk, not on my bookshelf!"
--Professor Mike Hardy MBE, Chair of the International Leadership Association and a visiting scholar at Yale University's International Leadership Centre
"I absolutely loved reading Build Better Teams. It all made perfect sense to me as George Karseras and I have been very su