The Performance Factor: Unlocking the Secrets of Teamwork

by A. S. (Pat) MacMillan

Publisher:

B&H

, 2001

Overview

As the tides of all the trendy business initiatives from the last twenty years have all disappeared, one concept has remained in their wake and continues to thrive today: team strategies. When implemented correctly, the results are impressive. Organizations—whether they are corporations or ministries—have successfully developed team strategies and are now experiencing significant increases in productivity and services. Team resource expert Pat MacMillan discusses the characteristics of a high performance team and how to implement a new paradigm of leadership to bring any organization to greater efficiency.

Contents

Top Highlights

“Captain Haynes attributes their success to five special factors—luck, communications, preparation, execution, and cooperation. He doesn't mind if I, and a good number of his passengers, choose to include the possibility of divine intervention.” (source)

“Teamwork is an organizational philosophy or value system, an occurrence, whereas teams are specific and discrete organizational units.” (source)

“The bottom line is that quality decides who gets to play in the game, but service and value will determine who wins.” (source)

“History is clear that, in most endeavors, success is a product of uncompromising attention to purpose.” (source)

“The confusion stems from seeing teams as the end versus the means to the end. Teams are a means of achieving goals too big and complex to reach through individual efforts.” (source)

Product Details

• Title: The Performance Factor: Unlocking the Secrets of Teamwork
• Author: A. S. (Pat) MacMillan
• Publisher: B&H
• Print Publication Date: 2001
• Logos Release Date: 2012
• Pages: 352
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• ISBNs: 9781430077480, 9781433671005, 143367100X, 1430077484
• Resource ID: LLS:9781433671005
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-06T20:51:25Z

About A. S. (Pat) MacMillan

Adjunct Professor of Leadership, Reformed Theological Seminary.