Mastering Team Leadership

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2. Motivating the individual

Abstract

Motivation is the study of what drives people. It is concerned with the satisfying of needs and the preferred way of such satisfaction — a person’s wants.

Roger Cartwright

4. Synergy and groupthink

Abstract

Given that belonging to any group or team involves a sacrifice of at least a degree of individuality there must be very good reasons why people join with others. As was shown in Chapter 1, humans are social animals and the individual sacrifices of freedom of action are compensated for by the benefits of being and working with others.

Roger Cartwright

5. Team development

Abstract

Teams do not just appear, they are formed. Just putting together a group of people together, even if they have shared interests and objectives, will not make a team.

Roger Cartwright

7. The role of the leader

Abstract

In researching this section the author searched through a large number of volumes on leadership. What appeared to be missing from all of them was a simple definition of what leadership actually is. There seemed to be an assumption that the reader would instinctively know. This may be correct, but the author believes that it is important to set out a definition to act as a starting point.

Roger Cartwright

8. Power and relationships

Abstract

This chapter is concerned primarily with how leaders (and other team members) use power. Power, in simple terms is the resource that ‘gets things done’ (Cartwright, 2002a).

Roger Cartwright

9. Teams, leadership and culture

Abstract

Although the word ‘culture’ is often used to mean different things, in national, group/team, organisation and business situations the simple definition of culture is:

‘The way things are done around here.’

Roger Cartwright

10. The twenty-first-century team and its leader

Abstract

Whether it was 2000 or 2001 when the Millennium was celebrated, for many in all kinds of fields it provided a natural break between what was and what would be. In practice 2000 came and went just like any other New Year without the Year 2000 (Y2K) bug that it was believed might paralyse computer systems.

Roger Cartwright

11. Thinkers on teams and leadership

Abstract

The thinkers in the chapter are those who have influenced the author. They have been chosen because they have challenged the way we think about teams and leadership.

Roger Cartwright

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