MyBookReview

I’m sure any one who had the experience of leading a team, wished that he or she could do everything?  Normally team members give you more headache than the task itself.  In this book, it shows you how to build a team.  Building a great team means that together, you can accomplish the task.

The book provides you with the skills to choose the right people for the right roles, complementing each other and combining skills to create a winning team spirit. The book will tell you how to identify and therefore avoid problematic people to be in the team.  Problem people such as the daydreamer, the loner, the sulker, the secretive person, the uncommunicative person and many more.  You will learn to inspire and to motivate members with the appropriate rewards.

Building team spirit includes the following techniques:

• Enourage team members to support each other.
• Train the team together.
• Put different people in charge of different projects.
• Give your team confidential information.
• Treat everyone as part of the team.

This is a great book to have if you are managing project teams.

About the book:

This is a book about leadership not literary naked in a sense.  This books aims to strip away the myth and mystery, the jargon and the hype to make personal and professional success a matter of choice.  At the end of each chapter, you are given choices.  You may follow the choice you made or you can read this book in a conventional way.  But I can tell this book is non-conventional.

I’ve been to many meetings,  all sorts of meetings.  The kinds of meetings that I dread most is the long-winded and boring ones.  A heated one is interesting and dramatic as long as you’re not the one in the firing line. In one section of the book, it tells about influence in company meetings (boring or otherwise).  No matter how it is conducted, one should always utilise meetings to build rapport and to get to know your peers better.  Seating is important too.  If you want to provide some influence to the chairman, seat either to right or to the left of the chairman because the chairman tends to confide in the persons seat next to him/her.  If you are seated in the opposite side, you may risk getting into conflict.  This is just one of tips in the book. There are many more.

I recommend this book if you’re management level or in a position of influence.

About the book:

Paperback
The Naked Leader
Authored by David Taylor
Published by Bantam Books, 2003
ISBN 0553815652
351 pages