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There Is an I in Team

What Elite Athletes and Coaches Really Know About High Performance

By: Mark de Rond

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There Is an I in Team

What Elite Athletes and Coaches Really Know About High Performance

By: Mark de Rond

Foreword by Richard Hytner, Deputy Chairman, Saatchi & Saatchi Worldwide We’ve all worked with one—a smart and immensely talented individual who brings enormous value to the organization. The problem? He’s an awful teammate. So as a leader, do you consider this key player toxic or irreplaceable? There Is an I in Team explores the relationship between individual and team—asking the question, How can we harness the talent of individual performers into a cohesive, productive team that creates overall value? And why are so many of our assumptions about teams wrong? Business challenges like this one mimic many of the issues facing sports teams, though admittedly the sports metaphors most commonly used in business are trite and superficial comparisons. What’s needed are real and substantial lessons that managers actually can take from the world of high-performance sports and use in an everyday work environment. This book meets that need. University of Cambridge professor Mark de Rond has combined cutting-edge social and psychological research with rich stories from world-class sports teams, coaches, athletes, and even business executives. The result challenges our most popular notions about teams. Equally critical, it teaches an innovative way to transform team potential into measurable business advantage. You’ll learn: • Why there is an I in team—and why that matters • Why an ideal team is rarely comprised of the best individual performers • Why conflict happens even when intentions are perfectly aligned • Why likability can trump competence even in technically sophisticated environments • Why a focus on interpersonal harmony can actually hurt team performance • Why data and sophisticated statistical tools are unlikely to eliminate the role of intuition At once readable and teachable, There Is an I in Team will strengthen your understanding of the issues that permeate teams of high-performers, and it will help you apply these new insights to your own work—giving you and your team an edge over the competition.

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Harvard Business Press

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ISBN 10

1422183971

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9781422183977

Strategic Alliances as Social Facts

Business, Biotechnology, and Intellectual History

By: Mark De Rond

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Strategic Alliances as Social Facts

Business, Biotechnology, and Intellectual History

By: Mark De Rond

How can we explain a proliferation of alliances when the probability of failure is higher than success? And why have we emphasized their order, manageability and predictability whilst acknowledging that they tend to be experienced as messy, politically charged and unpredictable? Mark de Rond, in this provocative book, sets out to address such paradoxes. Based on in-depth case studies of three major biotechnology alliances, he suggests that we need theories to explain idiosyncracy as well as social order. He argues that such theories must allow for social conduct to be active and self-directed but simultaneously inert and constrained, thus permitting voluntarism, determinism, and serendipity alike to explain causation in alliance life. The book offers a highly original combination of insights from social theory and intellectual history with more mainstream strategic management and organizations literature. It is a refreshing and thought-provoking analysis that will appeal to practitioner and academic researcher alike.

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252

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Cambridge University Press

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0521811104

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9780521811101

The Random Factor

How Chance and Luck Profoundly Shape Our Lives and the World Around Us

By: Mark Robert Rank

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The Random Factor

How Chance and Luck Profoundly Shape Our Lives and the World Around Us

By: Mark Robert Rank

Luck, chance, and randomness are topics that virtually everyone can relate to and that each of us have been affected by. The Random Factor explores these subjects using a vast array of evidence, fresh insights, and compelling stories based upon the author's long standing research. The range of subjects and scholarship is far reaching and compelling. From history, to the natural world, to our everyday lives, chance is shown to play an important role in shaping various outcomes. Just as important, The Random Factor details the dynamics that determine the ways that luck and chance play themselves out, and it reveals the lessons to be learned in terms of guiding our personal lives and social policies. Mark Robert Rank leads his readers on a fascinating journey across the shifting sands of chance and luck. It is a journey that will change the way we fundamentally understand the world we live in and the manner in which our lives unfold"--

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301

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Univ of California Press

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0520390962

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9780520390966

Ultras

The passion and performance of contemporary football fandom

By: Mark Doidge,Radoslaw Kossakowski,Svenja-Maria Mintert

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Ultras

The passion and performance of contemporary football fandom

By: Mark Doidge,Radoslaw Kossakowski,Svenja-Maria Mintert

Ultras are the most prominent form of football fandom in the 21st century, from their origins in Italy in the 1960s, this style of fandom has spread across Europe and then across the globe. This book provides the first European-wide monograph on the ultras phenomenon.

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328

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Manchester University Press

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1526127644

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9781526127648

Doctors at War

Life and Death in a Field Hospital

By: Mark de Rond

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Doctors at War

Life and Death in a Field Hospital

By: Mark de Rond

Doctors at War is a candid account of a trauma surgical team based, for a tour of duty, at a field hospital in Helmand, Afghanistan. Mark de Rond tells of the highs and lows of surgical life in hard-hitting detail, bringing to life a morally ambiguous world in which good people face impossible choices and in which routines designed to normalize experience have the unintended effect of highlighting war's absurdity. With stories that are at once comical and tragic, de Rond captures the surreal experience of being a doctor at war. He lifts the cover on a world rarely ever seen, let alone written about, and provides a poignant counterpoint to the archetypical, adrenaline-packed, macho tale of what it is like to go to war.Here the crude and visceral coexist with the tender and affectionate. The author tells of well-meaning soldiers at hospital reception, there to deliver a pair of legs in the belief that these can be reattached to their comrade, now in mid-surgery; of midsummer Christmas parties and pancake breakfasts and late-night sauna sessions; of interpersonal rivalries and banter; of caring too little or too much; of tenderness and compassion fatigue; of hell and redemption; of heroism and of playing God. While many good firsthand accounts of war by frontline soldiers exist, this is one of the first books ever to bring to life the experience of the surgical teams tasked with mending what war destroys.

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Cornell University Press

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1501707930

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9781501707933

The Edinburgh Fringe Survival Guide

How to Make Your Show A Success

By: Mark Fisher

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The Edinburgh Fringe Survival Guide

How to Make Your Show A Success

By: Mark Fisher

Ah! The Fringe! I can't think of a more delightful way of putting my liver, bank account, relationship, complexion, and mental stability under the greatest strain they've ever known!' Mel Giedroyc It is the world's largest arts festival, attracting everyone from student first-timers to Hollywood stars. Thrilling, inspiring and bewildering in equal measure, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe can make you a star or break your bank. So what is the secret of making it work for you? The Edinburgh Fringe Survival Guide draws on the experiences of the festival's leading figures - their disasters as well as their triumphs - to take you step by step through the process of making your show a success in the Scottish capital. From choosing a venue to keeping on top of the budget, from sorting out accommodation to securing the best press coverage, from generating word of mouth to making the most of a hit, this unique practical guide for performers, directors and producers helps you get your show the audience it deserves. Among those sharing their expert advice are playwright Simon Stephens, comedian Phil Nichol, actor Siobhan Redmond, producer Guy Masterson, Tiger Lillies front manMartyn Jacques, theatre critic Lyn Gardner, Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Award director Nica Burns, as well as the directors of all the major Fringe venues, top press officers, international promoters and insiders from the Fringe Society itself. The foreword is written by playwright Mark Ravenhill.

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280

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A&C Black

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1408136481

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9781408136485

Spain

By: Martin Dunford,Mark Ellingham

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Spain

By: Martin Dunford,Mark Ellingham

Bring the world a little closer with these multicultural books. An excellent way for students to appreciate and learn cultural diversity in an exciting hands-on format. Each book explores the history, language, holidays, festivals, customs, legends, foods, creative arts, lifestyles, and games of the title country. A creative alternative to student research reports and a time-saver for teachers since the activities and resource material are contained in one book.

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Prentice Hall

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0137838204

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9780137838202

Atheism, Religion and Enlightenment in Pre-revolutionary Europe

By: Mark Curran

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Atheism, Religion and Enlightenment in Pre-revolutionary Europe

By: Mark Curran

This book examines the reception of the works of the Baron d'Holbach throughout Francophone Europe. It insists that d'Holbach's historical importance has been understated, argues the case for the existence of a significant 'Christian Enlightenment', and much more.

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Boydell & Brewer Ltd

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0861933168

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9780861933167

Switzerland

By: Mark Honan

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Switzerland

By: Mark Honan

Whether skiing the Alpine slopes, mingling at the Montreux Jazz Festival or castle-crawling around the Bernese Oberland, this comprehensive guide to Switzerland and Liechtenstein reveals a culture and a landscape that surprises and invigorates. * extensive activities section covering Switzerland's great outdoors * a users guide to the must-see museums and galleries * new section on responsible tourism * comprehensive sections on history, culture and Switzerland's distinctive architecture * 52 maps, including easy-to-follow city maps of Zürich, Geneva and Lucerne

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0864427239

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9780864427236

Strategic Alliances as Social Facts

Business, Biotechnology, and Intellectual History

By: Mark De Rond

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Business, Biotechnology, and Intellectual History

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Cambridge University Press

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Book's by Mark de Rond

There Is an I in Team

There Is an I in Team

Strategic Alliances as Social Facts

Strategic Alliances as Social Facts

The Random Factor

The Random Factor

Ultras

Ultras

Doctors at War

Doctors at War

The Edinburgh Fringe Survival Guide

The Edinburgh Fringe Survival Guide

Spain

Spain

Atheism, Religion and Enlightenment in Pre-revolutionary Europe

Atheism, Religion and Enlightenment in Pre-revolutionary Europe

Switzerland

Switzerland

Strategic Alliances as Social Facts

Strategic Alliances as Social Facts

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