#TEAMWORKtweet: 140 Powerful Bite-Sized Insights on Lessons for Leading Teams to Success

By CarolineNicholl

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Caroline Nicholltweets, “Leadership matters but…teamwork…defines true success.” She shouldknow. In a career spanning two decades and two continents, she has made hermark in law enforcement and in translating the lessons learnt in lawenforcement to the corporate world. As she explains in her highly-readablebook, ’#TEAMWORK tweet,’ “Cops know goodteamwork calls for candor, camaraderie and mutual accountability.” In thebite-sized wisdom that has become a hallmark of the THINKaha books,

Caroline’s bookexplains why teamwork matters in today’s business environment, given themultiple challenges and opportunities.

The book revealswhat makes up an effective team, how to get a team to focus on its corepurpose, and the role of strong (but not egotistical) leadership in teamperformance. It shows how teams and their group dynamics need to be constantlynurtured, so that the differences in personalities and perspectives of teammembers can be harnessed towards the collective goal or creative purpose.

In our shiftingeconomy, the power of teamwork is ever more important. Yet many leaders areunaware of the essential ingredients for high performing teamwork. Contrary topopular wisdom, hiring smart people and paying them well is not enough. Thiskind of winging it, as '#TEAMWORK tweet Book01’demonstrates, is not recommended when we are counting on teams for innovation,productivity, adaptability, effective resource utilization, talent growth,profitability and customer retention. As a leader or a member of a team, youneed to learn what it takes to build high performing teams that supportindividual and organizational effectiveness, learning and growth. Read '#TEAMWORK tweet’ to learn why teams matter andwhat it takes to make them fly.

’#TEAMWORK tweet ’ is part of theTHINKaha series whose 100-page books contain 140 well-thought-out quotes(tweets/ahas).

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"Caroline's work on teams is highly relevant, particularly in a tough economy: her insightful work with one of our divisional teams surfaced issues that clarified exactly the priorities the team needed to address to increase its performance in a way that the team could hear. The team quickly got motivated to action. Caroline's approach is practical, sensitive and to the point, precipitating rapid learning and improvement." --Jay Reid, Senior Vice President, Labor Ready Inc.