The Team Secret

Author : L. Fletcher Prouty
Publisher : Skyhorse
ISBN 13 : 1626367809
Total Pages : 726 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret Team written by L. Fletcher Prouty and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Secret Team, L. Fletcher Prouty's CIA exposé, was first published in the 1970s, but virtually all copies of the book disappeared upon distribution, purchased en masse by shady "private buyers." Certainly Prouty's amazing allegations—that the U-2 Crisis of 1960 was fixed to sabotage Eisenhower-Khrushchev talks, and that President Kennedy was assassinated to keep the U.S., and its defense budget, in Vietnam—cannot have pleased the CIA. Though suppressed (until now), The Secret Team was an important influence for Oliver Stone's Academy Award-winning film JFK and countless other works on U.S. government conspiracies, and it raises the same crucial question today that it did on its first appearance: who, in fact, is in control of the United States and the world?

Author : Mark Miller
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1609941101
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret of Teams written by Mark Miller and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2011-10-03 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teams are critical to the success of every organization. Departmental, interdepartmental, cross-functional, ad hoc, task-specific—teams do everything from planning the office party to setting the annual budget to establishing performance goals. But what separates the teams that really deliver from the ones that simply spin their wheels? What is the secret of high-performance teams? As he did in The Secret, Mark Miller uses a compelling business fable to reveal profound yet easily grasped truths that can dramatically transform any organization. Debbie Brewster, the heroine of The Secret, has been promoted and is now struggling with taking her new team to the next level. Her old mentor, Jeff Brown, the company’s CEO, sends her out to find the secret of teams. On her journey she learns from three very different teams—the Special Forces, NASCAR, and a local restaurant. Debbie and her team discover the three elements that all successful teams have in common. But that’s just the beginning. The devil is in the details, as the story of Debbie’s efforts to actually implement the three elements shows. You’ll learn how to change entrenched ways of thinking and acting, what you have to do to optimize each of the three elements of a successful team, how to measure your progress, and more. Creating high-performance teams does more than just give your organization a competitive advantage. It can be a performance multiplier that significantly improves results while honoring and developing people. It may be the ultimate win-win-win that your organization is seeking.

Author : Koos Stadler
Publisher : Jonathan Ball Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1868428753
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Team Secret written by Koos Stadler and published by Jonathan Ball Publishers. This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The South African Special Forces achieved exceptional results with small groups of elite soldiers instead of larger, conventional teams. The Team Secret shows that the same principle applies in the business world – a small team has a much better chance of completing projects efficiently, on budget and on time. Teams, rather than individuals, form the DNA of many companies and they play a pivotal role in achieving strategic and financial success. Like Special Forces teams, they must function as a well-oiled machine firing on all cylinders. Koos Stadler tells in captivating detail about a real-life Special Forces operation and the lessons learnt about team dynamics and achieving the goal. His story, combined with anecdotes from Anton Burger's experiences as a team leader in different work environments, show the many lessons the business world can take from the Special Forces. The book identifies the key characteristics of an effective team, how to select the right team members, how to inculcate an ethos centred around team principles and how an effective team should be led. It speaks to both team members and team leaders across all managerial levels – from a team leader in a call centre to a project manager or CEO. In short: To fast-track your business, shape up your teams!

Author : Hayes, Philip
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN 13 : 0335238521
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leading And Coaching Teams To Success: The Secret Life Of Teams written by Hayes, Philip and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From cover to cover, this book provides a wonderfully detailed catalogue of behaviours, techniques and knowledge for the leader and the coach" People Management, 14 May 2012

Author : Mohit Tahiliani
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1618972154
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living the Secret written by Mohit Tahiliani and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the greatest time to be alive. When the book and accompanying video of The Secret came out, showing how The Law of Attraction works, people began to change their lives. Now so many are living the dream life they always wished for but didn't know how to attain. Living the Secret is a collection of stories about different people, from various countries all around the world, who have experienced the rewards of The Secret. Covering the major areas and subjects of life, the five chapters of Living the Secret explore health, education, careers, relationships, and money. Living the Secret is a tribute to what Rhonda Byrne has done for this world. It might seem like miracle at first, but people and our world are changing, finally discovering the positive force which is Love. Impossibilities are turning into possibilities. Dreams are coming true and the power of Love is spreading as never before. Mohit Tahiliani grew-up in a small town called Anand, Gujarat in India. He currently resides in Gurgaon (NCR), India, where he is an Assistant System Engineer at TCS. Just twenty-two years-old, Mohit was inspired to write Living the Secret after reading The Secret and The Power, and learning how The Law of Attraction works. He is living his dream life, and wants everyone to experience their own lives with joy, happiness, health and wealth. Publisher's website: http: //sbpra.com/MohilitTahiliani

Author : Brian Cole MILLER
Publisher : AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn
ISBN 13 : 0814413943
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nice Teams Finish Last written by Brian Cole MILLER and published by AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn. This book was released on 2010-05-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don’t rock the boat. Don’t make waves. Don’t offend anyone. There’s a palpable feeling that clouds many team meetings and keeps them from being productive: over-politeness. And while the conflict that naturally exists in most organizations hasn’t gone away, it manifests itself in passive-aggression, mediocrity, and a molasses-like inability to get anything done. Nice Teams Finish Last provides the antidote to this all-too-common tendency, giving managers, team leaders and members, and facilitators the practical support they need to battle “the nice trap” and start getting results! The book helps readers encourage skills such as constructive criticism, honest communication, and the kind of conflict that drives innovation and quality without hurting feelings or creating enemies. From giving clear, sharp feedback, to effectively challenging others, this book provides the eye-opening tools teams need to achieve very nice results!

Author : Mario Moussa
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119157420
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Committed Teams written by Mario Moussa and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-02-22 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Build high-performing teams with an evidence-based framework that delivers results Committed is a practical handbook for building great teams. Based on research from Wharton’s Executive Development Program (EDP), this concise guide identifies the common challenges that arise when people work together as a group and provides key guidance on breaking through the barriers to peak performance. Committed draws its insights from the EDP’s living lab: an intensive two-week simulation during which executive-level participants run complex global businesses. The authors have observed over 100 teams collaborating and competing for over 100 combined years in this intense environment. It has yielded fundamental insights about teamwork: what usually goes wrong, what frequently goes right, and the methods and techniques that will help you access your team’s full potential. These insights have been distilled into a simple, repeatable process that you can start applying today. Getting teams engaged and aligned is hard. Committed will give you the tools you need to deal with all of the familiar teamwork challenges that get in the way: organizational politics, delegation, coordination, and aligning skills and motivation. Using vivid stories and examples from the worlds of business, sports, and non-profits, it will teach you how to: Understand the dynamics of successful teams Achieve peak performance using a research-backed methodology Gain expert insight into why most teams underperform Learn the critical points common to all great teams Committed gives you the perspective you need to combine the right people with the right way of collaborating to achieve extraordinary results.

Author : Scott Ellsworth
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316244635
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret Game written by Scott Ellsworth and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2016 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing The true story of the game that never should have happened--and of a nation on the brink of monumental change In the fall of 1943, at the little-known North Carolina College for Negroes, Coach John McLendon was on the verge of changing basketball forever. A protégé of James Naismith, the game's inventor, McLendon taught his team to play the full-court press and run a fast break that no one could catch. His Eagles would become the highest-scoring college team in America--a basketball juggernaut that shattered its opponents by as many as sixty points per game. Yet his players faced danger whenever they traveled backcountry roads. Across town, at Duke University, the best basketball squad on campus wasn't the Blue Devils, but an all-white military team from the Duke medical school. Composed of former college stars from across the country, the team dismantled everyone they faced, including the Duke varsity. They were prepared to take on anyone--until an audacious invitation arrived, one that was years ahead of anything the South had ever seen before. What happened next wasn't on anyone's schedule. Based on years of research, The Secret Game is a story of courage and determination, and of an incredible, long-buried moment in the nation's sporting past. The riveting, true account of a remarkable season, it is the story of how a group of forgotten college basketball players, aided by a pair of refugees from Nazi Germany and a group of daring student activists, not only blazed a trail for a new kind of America, but helped create one of the most meaningful moments in basketball history.

Author : Michael Smith
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312378264
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Killer Elite written by Michael Smith and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-03-04 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A British journalist specializing in defense topics offers a readable, useful addition to the literature on American special operations forces.

Author : Ken Blanchard
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1626562008
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret written by Ken Blanchard and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors of Great Leaders Grow use a fable to lay out what is the secret to great leadership in this internationally bestselling guide. It’s a question that everyone in a position of authority—whether in a multinational corporation or a local volunteer group—wonders sooner or later. Here Ken Blanchard, whose books on leadership have sold over twenty million copies, and Mark Miller, who worked his way up from line worker to vice president of Chick-Fil-A, one of the largest fast-food restaurant chains in the country, uncover the secret that great leaders already know and detail what you need to do to truly inspire and motivate others. The authors get at the heart of what makes a leader successful using a classic business fable. Newly promoted but struggling young executive Debbie Brewster asks her mentor, “What is the secret of great leaders?” His reply—“great leaders serve”—flummoxes her, but over time he reveals the five fundamental ways that leaders succeed through service. Along the way, Debbie learns: • Why great leaders seem preoccupied with the future • How people on the team ultimately determine your success or failure • What three arenas require continuous improvement • Why true success in leadership has two essential components • How to knowingly strengthen—or unwittingly destroy—leadership credibility This new edition includes a leadership self-assessment so readers can measure to what extent they lead by serving and where they can improve. The authors have also added answers to the most frequently asked questions about how to apply the SERVE model in the real world. As practical as it is uplifting, The Secret shares Blanchard and Miller’s wisdom about leadership in a form that anyone can easily understand and implement. “You don’t have to be older to be a great leader. The Secret shows how to lay the foundation for powerful servant leadership early in your career to maximize your impact.” —Claire Diaz-Ortiz, Head of Corporate Innovation and Philanthropy at Twitter, Inc. and author of Twitter for Good and Hope Runs “When you learn The Secret, don't keep it to yourself. Share it and use it with your people. It will make a difference in their lives and their performance.” —Donald G. Soderquist, former Vice Chairman, Wal-Mart, and founder of the Soderquist Center for Leadership and Ethics, John Brown University “If you know The Secret, both relationships and results will prosper. It's a perfect move in your life from success to significance.” —Bob Buford, author of Halftime