The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork Workbook: Embrace Them and Empower Your Team - Softcover

Maxwell, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0785265767 ISBN 13: 9780785265764

Verlag: John Maxwell, 2003

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The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork has quickly become one of John Maxwell's bestselling books on leadership. Now, in this companion workbook, Dr. Maxwell provides a tool every person can use to adapt the 17 Laws to leadership at home, work, and church.

Learn how to build and maintain champion level teams, then lead your team to the peak level of success regardless of the field you're in.

Individual all-stars can only take you so far. Ultimately, success--whether in business, family, church, athletic teams, or any other organization--is entirely dependent on teamwork. But how does one build that team?

Leadership expert and bestselling author John C. Maxwell knows that building and maintaining a successful team is no simple task. Even people who have taken their teams to the highest level in their field have difficulty re-creating what accounted for their successes. In his practical, down-to-earth style, Maxwell shares the vital principles of team building that are necessary for success in any type of organization.

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John C. Maxwell is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, coach, and speaker who has sold more than 33 million books in fifty languages. He has been identified as the #1 leader in business and the most influential leadership expert in the world. His organizations - the John Maxwell Company, The John Maxwell Team, EQUIP, and the John Maxwell Leadership Foundation - have translated his teachings into seventy languages and used them to  train millions of leaders from every country of the world. A recipient of the Horatio Alger Award, as well as the Mother Teresa Prize for Global Peace and Leadership from the Luminary Leadership Network, Dr. Maxwell influences Fortune 500 CEOs, the presidents of nations, and entrepreneurs worldwide. For more information about him visit JohnMaxwell.com.

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THE 17 INDISPUTABLE LAWS OF TEAMWORK WORKBOOK

Embrace Them and Empower Your Team

By John C. Maxwell

Thomas Nelson

Copyright © 2003 Maxwell Motivation, Inc., a Georgia Corporation
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-0-7852-6576-4

Contents

Introduction, v, 
1. THE LAW OF SIGNIFICANCE One Is Too Small a Number to Achieve Greatness, 1, 
2. THE LAW OF THE BIG PICTURE The Goal Is More Important Than the Role, 14, 
3. THE LAW OF THE NICHE All Players Have a Place Where They Add the Most Value, 26, 
4. THE LAW OF MOUNT EVEREST As the Challenge Escalates, the Need for Teamwork Elevates, 40, 
5. THE LAW OF THE CHAIN The Strength of the Team Is Impacted by Its Weakest Link, 53, 
6. THE LAW OF THE CATALYST Winning Teams Have Players Who Make Things Happen, 65, 
7. THE LAW OF THE COMPASS Vision Gives Team Members Direction and Confidence, 79, 
8. THE LAW OF THE BAD APPLE Rotten Attitudes Ruin a Team, 92, 
9. THE LAW OF COUNTABILITY Teammates Must Be Able to Count on Each Other When It Counts, 105, 
10. THE LAW OF THE PRICE TAG The Team Fails to Reach Its Potential When It Fails to Pay the Price, 119, 
11. THE LAW OF THE SCOREBOARD The Team Can Make Adjustments When It Knows Where It Stands, 132, 
12. THE LAW OF THE BENCH Great Teams Have Great Depth, 144, 
13. THE LAW OF IDENTITY Shared Values Define the Team, 155, 
14. THE LAW OF COMMUNICATION Interaction Fuels Action, 167, 
15. THE LAW OF THE EDGE The Difference Between Two Equally Talented Teams Is Leadership, 181, 
16. THE LAW OF HIGH MORALE When You're Winning, Nothing Hurts, 192, 
17. THE LAW OF DIVIDENDS Investing in the Team Compounds Over Time, 206, 
Notes, 220, 
About the Author, 223, 

CHAPTER 1

THE LAW OF SIGNIFICANCE

One Is Too Small a Number to Achieve Greatness

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When you look at the ways people conduct their lives, you can tell pretty quickly who recognizes and embraces the truth of the Law of Significance. This is certainly true of Lilly Tartikoff. I don't know whether Lilly always knew the value of teamwork, but I suspect she learned it early. Lilly was once a professional ballet dancer. If dancers don't work together, their performances never reach the caliber of Lilly's. Beginning at age seven, she spent ten hours a day, six days a week practicing or performing ballet. As a result, she became a member of the New York City Ballet Company from 1971 to 1980.

At a tennis party in Los Angeles in 1980, Lilly met Brandon Tartikoff, the newly named president of entertainment for NBC. At that time he was the youngest network president in history at age thirty. They soon became friends. Then they began to see each other romantically. They were married in 1982. And that started a whole new life for Lilly. She went from a non-television watcher to the spouse of a network executive immersed in the culture of the L.A. entertainment industry. But that adjustment was nothing compared to the other challenge she faced that year. For the second time in his life, Brandon was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease.

On the advice of a physician friend, Brandon went to see a young oncological researcher at UCLA named Dennis Slamon. In August 1982, Dr. Slamon started Brandon on two kinds of treatment, one of which was experimental. Brandon would usually receive treatment on a Friday, and afterward Lilly would drive him home and take care of him while he suffered from horrible side effects all weekend. They did this for a year, and all the while Brandon continued in his role as network president. It was a difficult time for them, but they chose to face the cancer as a team, and in time Brandon recovered.

Out of that ordeal came many things. For one, Brandon's network, NBC, went from worst to first in the ratings. In his autobiography he wrote, "Cancer helps you see things more clearly. The disease, I've found, can actually help you do your job, and there's a very simple reason why: There's nothing like cancer to keep you focused on what's important." That focus enabled him to air some of the most popular and groundbreaking shows in television's history: The Cosby Show, Cheers, Hill Street Blues, Miami Vice, The Golden Girls, The A-Team, St. Elsewhere, and others.

For Lilly, though, there was a different kind of outcome. Once Hodgkin's disease had been driven from her husband's body, she didn't simply move on.

"Brandon was at the receiving end of some pretty amazing science," she observed. The medical research that had extended Brandon's life intrigued her. So when she had an opportunity to help others benefit from that same science, she couldn't say no. This occurred in 1989 when Dr. Slamon, the UCLA scientist who had treated Brandon seven years earlier, asked Lilly for her help.

For years he had been studying breast cancer, and he believed he was on the verge of developing a radical new treatment that would not only be more effective in treating the disease than anything previously developed, but he could do it without all the usual side effects of chemotherapy. He had the expertise and skill necessary to do the work, but he couldn't do it alone. He needed someone to help with funding. And he thought of Lilly. She was only too happy to help.

The plan she developed showed great insight into teamwork and strategic partnerships. Lilly had once worked as a beauty adviser for Max Factor, formerly connected to Revlon. She sought to get Ronald Perelman, the CEO of Revlon, together with Dr. Slamon. At first that wasn't easy, but once Perelman realized the potential of Slamon's research, he pledged $2.4 million to the scientist's work, with no restrictions. It was a partnership unlike anything that had been done before. What resulted was the creation of the Revlon/UCLA Women's Cancer Research Program—and a successful new treatment for cancer that was soon saving women's lives.

For Lilly, cofounding the research program was just a beginning. She had gotten a taste of what teamwork could do, and she was hungry to do much more. She quickly realized that she could enlist others to her cause. She would build a larger team, and she would use her show business connections to do it. That same year she established an annual Fire and Ice Ball in Hollywood to raise money. A few years later, she enlarged her circle and partnered with the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF) to put together the Revlon Run/Walk, first in Los Angeles and then in New York. So far, those events have raised more than $18 million for cancer research. And in 1996 she helped create the National Women's Cancer Research Alliance.

Sadly, in 1997 Brandon's cancer recurred a third time and took his life. He was only forty-eight years old. Despite the personal setback, Lilly continues to build teams to fight cancer. Recently when she met Katie Couric, who had lost her husband to colon cancer, Lilly was again inspired to action. With the help of Couric and the EIF, in 2000 she formed the National Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance.

"When I sat down with Katie," said Lilly, "to hear that, with an early diagnosis, you could turn the cancer around—and that literally it's 90 percent curable and preventable ... Well, this was like putting a steak in front of a hungry dog ... I thought, We've got to do this. So I brought in all my partners: the Entertainment Industry Foundation and Dr. Slamon ... And Dr. Slamon brought together an agenda and a mission ... So we created the NCCRA [National Colorectal Cancer Research...

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• Verlag: John Maxwell
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0785265767
• ISBN 13: 9780785265764
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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