The Big Book of Team Building Games: Trust-Building Activities, Team Spirit Exercises, and Other Fun Things to Do | 
 enlarge | Authors: John W. Newstrom, Edward E. Scannell
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 7352
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 238
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 0070465134
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.402
UPC: 639785302063
EAN: 9780070465138
ASIN: 0070465134
Publication Date: December 1, 1997
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Product Description
Did you know that games can be a terrifically effective way to build team spirit, communication, and trust among people who work together day in and day out? Now you can spark morale in any work group by choosing from 70 stimulating games and activities specifically designed for the manager who's looking to raise sagging morale in a department, liven up boring staff meetings, enable team members to collaborate smoothly and effectively, and much more!
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 not worth buying April 14, 2008
This book is not comprehensible and boring. I don't know what to do with it's content.
 Superb resource book May 3, 2007
I had this series of books before - loaned them out at work and never got them back (go figure!). Happy to have found them again here.
 Great book for great ideas March 14, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Remember when you were in arts and craft classes, this book is like that
Great January 12, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Excellent quality and turnaround time, received when promised. The games are fun, and not immature for adults!
 Patronising rubbish November 4, 2006
5 out of 9 found this review helpful
It's strange how so many businesspeople I meet tend to be right-wing, anti-communist and great believers in personal freedom, yet run their businesses like Stalin's Russia. Workers are motivated by a mixture of fear and ambition and any individual opinion that deviates from the party line is seen as a threat.
I'm a manager. All I ask of my staff is that they're honest, work hard and treat everyone with respect. That's it. For my part I give them a clear idea of what I expect and make sure that they have the tools to do the job and receive recognition of their achievements. What I don't do is mess with their heads.
This book is symptomatic of a trend in management culture where it is not enough to ask people to do their jobs well, we now have to re-engineer their souls. The aim of this book is to motivate staff with 'fun' activities in staff training sessions, but the reality is intrusive and patronising. One game invites workers to mention a childhood achievement that they were particularly proud of and then get other members of the team to discuss it. Well, I believe in personal freedom and part of that is not feeling obliged to talk about personal things in a work setting.
Chairman Mao had his 'Cultural Revolution' and this smacks of the same attitude. It's not enough for people to do as they're told, they now have to have the right attitude and if they're not willing to be team players, they're out. It's like 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers'.
Buy this book to find out how emotionally dysfunctional people struggle to motivate teams and get it horribly wrong.
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