Rapid Teamwork

By: Sean Glaze

Narrated by: Kelly Rhodes

Are the people in your organization underachieving? Does it seem like something is...missing?

In modern organizations there seems to be a revolving door that presents employees and managers with new roles and new teammates. Their challenge is seldom strategy. Teams struggle because they don't have a process for bringing diverse individuals together as a collaborative team.

Rapid Teamwork offers leaders a solution to that all-too-common problem in an easy and entertaining leadership parable.

Rapid Teamwork is a leadership parable that tells the story of Greg Sharpe, a manager that listeners can easily relate to. Greg's team has been underachieving and struggling with a few issues. What he and his executive team experience during an unusual rafting retreat is a lesson on how to become a more productive team quickly - creating a stronger, more unified workforce.

Discover the five ingredients that all great teams have in common, and will take away tools and ideas to apply those same positive traits to their team culture and transform your stressed employees into truly invested owners.

By applying the insights that Rapid Teamwork shares, you will gain clarity and purpose, harness the influence of appreciation, and experience the profitable power of team unity!

©2015 Sean Glaze (P)2015 Sean Glaze

Teaching leadership in a story and not charts or worksheets

The whimsical story in this book will give you all the tools you need to start your leadership journey. That in itself is great but what’s more important is that the story helps it stick in your mind.

Parable falls flat

I was recommended this book as a way to see the struggles of management and could barely get past how incredibly dull the book is, but I did finish the book as it's a short 3 hours. It falls somewhere between non-fiction and fiction. If you read a lot of non-fiction, this is probably a breath of fresh air as it has a general plot. However, as someone that reads a lot of fiction, this book needs a lot more "show don't tell". Scenes feel flat, the characters are not relatable, the dialogue feels incredibly fake and forced, and even when explicitly stated motivations feel weak and unimportant. It's clear the author is a business professional and has a good grasp of the underlying material, but either needs to spend more time fleshing out the story and scenes, or needs a better editor to do it for him.

As for the information itself, it has some good points on team building. It draws attention to specific things that managers and teams need to take into consideration to be cohesive. Some of the takes are a little old school or "traditional business" mentality but it doesn't really take away from the information itself.