Are You a Team or a Meeting?

Teams are now too big; too busy; and too many. No wonder they don't work. Nick Pope provides the antidote. A brilliant, practical guide on how to make teamwork work again. Drawing on insights from his work with leadership teams worldwide, Pope shows you how to marshal your team behind a real purpose, turn polite conversations into productive commitments, and build energy rather than exhaustion. Enough of whining meetings, it's time to be a winning team. -- Steve Martin, bestselling author of Yes!
As a long-time student of team effectiveness, I found this book refreshingly practical - it challenged me to move beyond running meetings and inspired me to build a team with real purpose, trust, and results -- Paddy Hull, Senior Director Global Talent & Leadership at Heineken
Hope is at hand with this excellent book by Nick Pope. It brings together research and practice in a book that leaders at every level will recognise as both rigorous and practical, and is packed with many field-tested tools that leaders can put to work in their own teams immediately. I thoroughly recommend it for team leaders working in any sector, and for team coaches -- Professor Peter Hawkins best-selling author of Systemic Coaching
Dr Nick Pope's wry observations of what a team actually is and what can so easily go wrong will have you smiling in recognition. He's certainly put in the hours - deep academic research as well working with over a thousand teams across fifty different countries - and it really shows. His highly practical insights into how to make collaboration (which goes beyond cooperation) real and effective should be read by anyone who is - or wants to be - a leader -- Neil Mullarkey, author of In The Moment