Team Building
An Exercise in Leadership
Maddux
1992
Yeah, this is old. It also is a workbook format which I think has a dubious place in a public library collection. Too many people have no qualms about filling out information in a library book. I also have a working theory that all management books are probably the same, they just repackage it with a slick new catch phrase. Regardless, they are an important part of a general collection and usually popular with the public. I think there is better stuff available, not to mention newer.
This book is just so-so, even for the 90s. I really can live without the baseball metaphor. (I get the feeling the author is trying to make this material “sexy” rather than “sporty”.) The only thing missing is organizing a retreat complete with a trust fall. (You might as well know now, if ever have to do a trust fall, I will drop you. On purpose.)
Mary
That cover is downright creepy. And if you have a workbook in a collection, laminate the pages. Or at least, the ones you are supposed to fill in.
Know what’s (perhaps) worse than finding books like this on the shelves of a public library? Finding them tucked in with government administrative archival material … Meeting notes, policy development papers, “how to manage” books with atrocious art, more policy development papers …
I have an ENTIRELY different technique for getting to first base…