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Dream Teams

Working Together Without Falling Apart
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Dream Teams by Shane Snow explores what makes teams successful and innovative by examining various examples from sports, business, and history. The book delves into how collaboration and effective teamwork can lead to groundbreaking achievements and smarter problem-solving. Ideal for anyone interested in personal and professional growth.
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Dream Teams

Award-winning entrepreneur and journalist Shane Snow takes us on an extraordinary tour of the hidden science of team dynamics, revealing the counterintuitive reasons that some groups break out while far too many break down.

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Dream Teams by Shane Snow takes readers on a riveting journey into the science of collaboration and team dynamics. Built on a premise that the best groups can achieve breakthroughs that individuals cannot, the book delves into why teamwork often fails to live up to this potential. Through a combination of historical anecdotes, scientific insights, and contemporary analyses, Snow illustrates the hidden mechanisms that make or break teams. 'An adventure into the very human science of making breakthroughs together.' - Charles Duhigg, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of The Power of Habit

The best groups are more than the sum of their parts - but why does teamwork so often fail to fulfil this promise?

Award-winning entrepreneur and journalist Shane Snow takes us on an extraordinary tour of the hidden science of team dynamics, revealing the counterintuitive reasons that some groups break out while far too many break down. Examining history-making groups like the Wu Tang Clan and the Russian national hockey side alongside teams whose failures have had lasting impact, Snow uncovers the secrets behind successful collaborations and what the rest of us can learn from the rare teams that achieve the impossible together.

In this stimulating, pacey adventure through history, neuroscience, psychology, sports, and business, Snow explores the key factors that separate thriving teams from struggling ones. You'll discover:

  • How ragtag teams - from soccer clubs to startups to gangs of pirates - beat the odds throughout history
  • Why DaimlerChrysler flopped while the Wu-Tang Clan succeeded, and the surprising factors behind most failed mergers, marriages, and partnerships
  • What the Wright Brothers' daily arguments can teach us about group problem solving
  • The true stories of pioneering women in law enforcement, unlikely civil rights collaborators, and underdog armies that accomplished the incredible together
  • The team players behind great social movements in history, and the science of becoming open-minded

Provocative and entertaining, Dream Teams is a landmark work that will change the way we think about progress and collaboration. It challenges conventional wisdom and opens our minds to the power of unlikely alliances and the true potential of human teamwork.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780349420967

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 June 2018

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Piatkus Books

Illustration: 20 b/w illustrations

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 24.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 232.0mm

Weight: 355g

Pages: 304

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About the Author

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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