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Dream teams working together without falling apart

"Award-winning entrepreneur and journalist Shane Snow reveals the counterintuitive reasons why so many partnerships and groups break down--and why some break through. The best teams are more than the sum of their parts, but why does collaboration so often fail to fulfill this promise? In Dream...

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Main Author: Snow, Shane (Author)
Other Authors: Walton, Aaron (writer of foreword.), Sandberg, Sheryl (writer of afterword.), Grant, Adam (writer of afterword.)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York, NY : Portfolio/Penguin, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2018]
Subjects:
Cooperativeness.
Small groups > Psychological aspects.
Teams in the workplace.
Interpersonal relations.
Interpersonal conflict.
Summary: "Award-winning entrepreneur and journalist Shane Snow reveals the counterintuitive reasons why so many partnerships and groups break down--and why some break through. The best teams are more than the sum of their parts, but why does collaboration so often fail to fulfill this promise? In Dream Teams, Snow takes us on an adventure through history, neuroscience, psychology, and business, exploring what separates groups that simply get by together from those that get better together." -- Amazon.com.
Item Description: Includes index.
Physical Description: xiii, 286 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
ISBN: 9780735217799
0735217793
Author Notes: Shane Snow is a science and business journalist and the co-founder of Contently, one of Inc's fastest growing companies and Crain's and Ad Age's best places to work in America. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker , Wired, The Washington Post , Fast Company , Time , and GQ . His first book, Smartcuts , has made him a highly sought-after speaker around the world on innovation and lateral thinking.

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