Working in Teams

Moving From High Potential to High Performance

Great introduction to the topic, touches different aspects of effective teamwork. I've put it on the list of recommended reading.

I found the material very relevant and more importantly my students enjoyed the text, which evokes some very meaningful discussions.

While I have yet to get too far into the book, my initial reaction to the material in the book is very good. I really like the variety of case studies and end of chapter discussion questions and activities.

I included the book as a recommended book listing. The course have a particular design aspect, so this would not suitable to become an essential book.

A really useful book for undergraduate students to examine the workings of teams.

Looks good but does not work with our assignments.

too specific

The authors brought together a lot of relevant knowledge on teams.
However, to me it appears that the authors confusingly mix all kinds of teams:
e.g. intra-organisational:
1 a stable management team
2 a stable self managing team with a primary process task
3 teams in a projectbased (engineer to order) primary process that live as long as it takes to fulfil the order
4 temporary teams with an innovation or R&D-task (that will change in composition depending on the project-stage)

Esp 3 & 4 may be composed of people from different org's (eg 'us' plus suppliers and customer)

And teams of students in an educational setting have their own peculiarities.
Because of this I will not adopt.

Very good book for undergraduate leadership students.

Excellent text and support materials. I will try it for a year and see how the students interact with the materials. Thanks for the desk copy and access to support materials. This allows me to begin designing the class as soon as I adopt the text.