The Adventures of Team Fantastic: A Practical Guide for Team Leaders and Members

By Glenn, L. Hallam

Book Overview

Using imaginative examples, this entertaining and informative book looks at the ways anyone who is part of a team can help improve its performance. The reader travels through time and space with Team Fantastic--in the Brazilian jungle looking for a cache of diamonds, on a mid-eighteenth century railroad track straightening ties, in the seventeenth century acting in a Shakespearean play--and shares the successes and failures of this fictional team while learning valuable real-life team skills from it. A series of recommendations for team members provides specific advice on how to manage conflict, better utilize available skills, become more innovative, build commitment, and more. A worksheet helps the reader choose the most important recommendations, rank them by importance, and develop specific goals for team improvement.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1882197178
• ISBN13: 9781882197170
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 7.0" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Fun and unique way to look at teams!

Most books out there are very dry and pedagogical. Every now and then, we all need to relax a bit and get a fresh look at how organizations operate. This book hits the mark in that respect.

Entertaining, concise, and valuable.

Although this book is short (75 pages), it is long on practical tips for teams and manages to discuss a well-worn topic in a refreshingly imaginative and absorbing manner. This book will make your next airplane flight zoom by