Team Players. Five Roles Required for Every Effective Team

Think of football. There is a goalkeeper, forwards, defenders, and midfielders. Hockey is pretty much the same. And so is basketball. In any team sport, there is a clear distribution of roles among team members. Because you won't win if you have five centers, but the wings are open, and there is no one in the goal.
It's the same in business. There won't be sustainable results if ideas are flowing from employees like a fountain, but there is no one to implement them and keep track of deadlines. Therefore, Mark Murphy offers a practical model of five roles: leader, achiever, manager, diplomat, and visionary. The author discusses their features, ways to switch between them, and hiring tools to select only those people you currently need and maintain balance in the team.

Additionally, from the book, you will learn:
- what is common between treating tuberculosis and building teams;
- how team-building activities spoil relationships with the company and colleagues;
- when personal qualities are more important than hard skills.

«This book shows why even strong teams sometimes start to "stall" and how to bring them back under control. The described model of roles helps to see the management team in a different light: who makes decisions, who brings them to results, and who unobtrusively keeps the system from crashing. And if you work under pressure, deadlines, and the high cost of mistakes — this book is definitely for you»!