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Teamwork Books

 

1937 people skills classic: "How To Win Friends and Influence People"

 

 

CEO choice for best motivational book: "The Little Engine That Could"

   

Avoid dumb mistakes: "The 10 Dumbest Mistakes Smart People Make and How to Avoid Them"

   

Self-confidence:  "The Confidence Course"

   

Creativity:  "Aha!"

Teamwork Quotations

"A few harmless flakes working together can unleash an avalanche of destruction."  Unknown

"A leader is only as strong as his team."  George W. Bush

"An office is more honest when the employees like their boss and their work."  Freakonomics

"By working together, pooling our resources and building on our strengths, we can accomplish great things."  Ronald Reagan

"Give the world the best you have, and it may not be enough.  Give your best anyway.  For you see, in the end, it is between you and God.
It was never between you and them - anyway."  Mother Teresa

"Happy employees work harder."  Principal Financial Group ad

"I submit to you that even today, as tough as things seem, it is much better to be us than them."  J. Dennis Hastert, former speaker of the US House of Representatives

"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."  Ralph Waldo Emerson

"More team, less work."  Unknown

"One team, one dream."  Nancy Kamp

"Study Finds Working At Work Improves Productivity"  Onion headline

"The human aspect of life is just the most important thing there is.  If you don't have a place to address that ... you are probably not as complete ... as you thought you were."  James Goetz

"There is no 'I' in teamwork."  Unknown

"While we're on the same ship, we have to be on the same team."  Andromeda

"Without all of us, there is none of us."  Ray Kroc, founder of McDonald's

"Working with large corporations is the slowest process outside of continental drift."  Joss Whedon

I expected to place this mini-review among the cookbook pages, but after actually reading Fast Food Nation, I put it on this Teamwork page.  Although the crews in fast food restaurants are an excellent example of teamwork in action, the overall labor situation there might be textbook for how not to train and retain good people.  Eric Schlosser names names and produces amazing numbers while packing the narrative with useful and interesting facts.  For example, TV weatherman Willard Scott named Ronald McDonald and was the first clown to play the part - until he got too fat!  Nancy   If a book you're looking for is out of print, click on any link to Amazon Books Home Page, Amazon.ca, Amazon.co.uk, or Alibris to find out if it is available as a used book.   Biography Book Reviews History Book Reviews Historical Fiction Book Reviews Mini Book Review List

Elaine Viets' Dead-End Job mystery series is a look at the world of work from the bottom up - hey, we can't all be jet setting airhead heiresses and starlets.  And no matter what you do for a living, you can probably use a good mystery, right?  Begin with Shop till You Drop.  Nancy