The Secret of Teams, Mark Miller
The Secret of Teams, Mark Miller
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The Secret of Teams
What Great Teams Know and Do

Author: Mark Miller, Ken Blanchard

Narrator: Bob Dunsworth

Unabridged: 3 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/22/2011


Synopsis

Using the same characters as those found in Miller’s other bestseller, The Secret and one new character, a retired Special Forces Commander, this work aims to help team leaders and team members create high-performing teams. The core message is that Talent, Skills, and Community are all essential to team success, and that team leaders and leaders supervising or training team leaders, need to develop all three in order to create such teams.
 
 This work presents a radical message in the team literature and in the practice of most organizations. Most team books focus on such things as getting clear about team purpose and team member roles, not the importance of creating a sense of community in a team. Miller offers concrete suggestions for building teams where people know each other deeply, server each other willingly, and genuinely care for each other. The reader learns of the value true affection and compassion bring to a team and how crucial that bond is to any team’s success.

About Mark Miller

Mark Miller is a journalist, author, and podcaster with a national reputation as a top expert on retirement and aging-and he is at a point in life when he personally is asking himself many of the same questions facing millions of other older Americans. He contributes regularly to the New York Times "Retiring" column, which appears in the Sunday edition, where they are among the best-read personal finance stories in the paper. He also writes monthly national columns on retirement for Reuters, Morningstar, and Wealth Management magazine. Mark's website, RetirementRevised.com, publishes a newsletter and podcast that features interviews with authoritative experts in the field of retirement. His books include Jolt: Stories of Trauma and Transformation and The Hard Times Guide to Retirement Security. He is the father of three young adult children who still periodically seek out advice from him or his wife of forty years, Anita Weinberg.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill

Mark Miller has worked at Chick fil-A in various capacities since 1977. He has written a number of books, all of which I’ve read and benefitted from. He writes his books in the form of entertaining “leadership fables”, similar to books written by Patrick Lencioni and Ken Blanchard, who writes the “F......more

Goodreads review by Ashik

A few days ago I finished another leadership business fable "The Secret of Teams: What Great Teams Know and Do" by Mark Miller. Through the character Debbie Brewster and her mentor Jeff Brown, the author reveals to us the secrets of high performing teams In this book what we find is that there are th......more

Goodreads review by Helfren

Most of us never been to a high performers team. The size of a challenge is the great idea that can create a great competitive advantage. Generate an amazing results by studying the best. Find the team that's doing right. A general comes to give speech and when being thanked for his years of services......more

Goodreads review by Larry

Appreciated the information, but was distracted by the attempt to put the information in the form of a story. If it was a description of what really took place it seemed forced. If it was fictional it was not well done. But the information about forming teams is very good information. It seems a litt......more

Goodreads review by Jeffrey

Selection – it matters who is on the team. People with the right attitude and aptitude. Training – you must prepare your people. Training keeps people sharp. Problem-solving, and decision making are a few of the things people must learn. Training is the mother of consistency. People do not see the tr......more