At the heart of this book is Parkes’s distinction between ‘single-site’ leaders and ‘multi-site’ leaders. If we are to track a leader’s career progression at some point fairly early on in their leadership journey they will move from managing and leading a team that is close to them, to one which is more dispersed, at […]
Book Review Subject: Team Building and Teamwork
Meltdown
The core observation of the authors is built on the research of former Yale and Stanford sociology professor Charles Perrow. Perrow created a matrix based on his analysis of what had gone wrong at the Three-Mile Island nuclear accident in 1979. The model plots complexity against what he terms ‘close-coupling’ of systems. Close-coupled systems are […]
A Brain for Business, A Brain for Life
Perhaps the best way to understand the brain is to forget its complexity and the wonder of what it can achieve, and focus in on the fact that we humans are just animals who have evolved and adapted to become the all-powerful species that we are today. O'Mara builds on the foundational discoveries of recent […]
The Leadership of Teams
The authors' research showed that 69% of managers work with five or more teams. So getting team leadership right is important. The book explores the breadth of aspect that combine to make up teams and teamwork and team leadership. The authors drawn on their extensive knowledge of the sector and highlight the key thinking, much […]