Real Dream Teams: Seven Practices Used by World-Class Team Leaders to Achieve Extraordinary Results

By Bo Thomas, Bob Fisher, Robert Fisher

Book Overview

Want to achieve spectacular success in your personal and business life? Looking for ways to mold and capture superior teamwork, cohesion, and bone-deep dedication? Put Real Dream Teams on your list of must reads.
From the headlines used to describe groups such as the 1992 U.S. Olympic basketball team, to Hollywood production moguls, to attorneys clashing in major criminal cases, we have all heard the phrase "dream teams" used and misused. Real Dream Teams
is a book that focuses on extraordinary efforts by conditioned winners who have achieved outstanding results through what the authors call "synergistic group dynamics."
Let Real Dream Teams point you in the direction of becoming a more effective team leader and team member. Read of team efforts and extraordinary practices and results as demonstrated by recipients of the Nobel Prize, the Medal of Honor, national championships, and best-in-industry awards. Take tips from those who have achieved their membership in Real Dream Teams:

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1574440063
• ISBN13: 9781574440065
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Fairly Detailed (and good) Rah-Rah

I enjoyed this book for several reasons. It inspired me to hear the stories of real dream teams and their leaders. These are real dream teams - no question. And it gave a very good introduction/overview of seven practices needed to move teams to become high performing teams. I also enjoyed it because it gave real life examples for each of its practices. It covers the basics and even introduces some new basics, which really makes it valuable. The book is a lot of hype and sales pitches for teamwork, and didn't cover much detail, or the nitty gritty hard work of making teams effective, but as an introduction, I haven't seen better. I'm using it as a textbook for a class and my students LOVE it. Well worth the read.

The best "real" team-building book I've read

Real Dream Teams provides excellent insight into the underlying thread that makes teams win. The 7 practices are not only identified and articulated but related to amazing accounts of success. Truly inspiring, yet at the same time very practical. I feel more equipped to motivate and lead.

I'm convinced! Teamwork is essential and pays off!

Skeptical of why supposed "teamwork" is so great, I have to say that this book gave the "Real" information behind the reasons why true TEAMS always experience success. We've all seen "Dream Teams", and wished we could be part of one, but this book tells HOW in real-life terms. Other books on this topic have a bunch of "rah! rah!" stuff in it to get you psyched up, but don't teach you how to implement teambuilding, but this book doesn't B.S. about all that. This book is for those that are SERIOUS about experiencing SUCCESS