Eric Jacobson

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How To Build An Extreme Team

Eric Jacobson

Extreme Teams is a fascinating book by Robert Bruce Shaw , where he takes you inside top companies and examines not just great teams (your more “conventional” teams), but extreme teams. According to Shaw, extreme teams : View work as a calling —even an obsession. What specific results do you want/need to see?

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How To Build Resilient And Thriving Teams

Eric Jacobson

How net thriving teams can improve businesses, neighborhoods, and governments. Thriving individuals are 20% more likely to have thriving team members. People will connect naturally as they learn more about each other’s processes and goals. Encourage employees to work together on shared community goals.

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How To Reach Your Goals

Eric Jacobson

Social psychologist, Heidi Grant Halvorson , wrote Succeed to help you understand how goals work, what tends to go wrong, and what you can do to reach your goals or to help others reach theirs. In her 260-page book, Halvorson covers : • How to set a goal that you will pursue even in the face of adversity. •

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High-Performing Teams Do This

Eric Jacobson

According to Ron Ricci and Carl Wiese , authors of the book, The Collaboration Imperative , high-performing teams have the following characteristics : People have solid and deep trust in each other and in the team's purpose--they feel free to express feelings and ideas. Everybody is working toward the same goals.

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High-Performing Teams Do This

Eric Jacobson

Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez, author of the new book, Harvard Business Review Project Management Handbook , explains that high-performing teams have these eight attributes : The team has time to meet and get to know each other. All team members participate to establish team goals.

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The Traits Of An Extreme Team

Eric Jacobson

Extreme Teams is a fascinating book by Robert Bruce Shaw , where he takes you inside top companies and examines not just great teams (your more “conventional” teams), but extreme teams. According to Shaw, extreme teams : View work as a calling —even an obsession. What specific results do you want/need to see?

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The 10 Things High-Performing Teams Do

Eric Jacobson

According to Ron Ricci and Carl Wiese , authors of the book, The Collaboration Imperative , high-performing teams have the following characteristics : People have solid and deep trust in each other and in the team's purpose--they feel free to express feelings and ideas. Everybody is working toward the same goals.

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