The New York Times –bestselling author of Hundred Percenters and Hiring for Attitude shows
you how to build the most successful team The conventional wisdom is wrong about how great
teams are built. Effective leaders worry less about cohesion and more about assembling the
right group of people with complementary talents and personalities. No amount of teambuilding
trust or cohesion can overcome having the wrong mix of people in the room. In Team Players
Mark Murphy argues that the best teams contain an ideal mix of five vital roles: Director
Achiever Stabilizer Harmonizer and Trailblazer. Murphy’s groundbreaking research shows how
to unlock each team member’s talents and position them to succeed within the team. Murphy
reveals how unlocking the Directors Achievers Stabilizers Harmonizers and Trailblazers on
your team solves teams’ absence of accountability the torment of aimless meetings the
unfairness of uneven workloads the scarcity of active participation the chaos of clashing
agendas and the dearth of decisiveness. With a balance of hard-hitting research and
compelling real-world examples this book is a pivotal read for anyone keen on accelerating
team development while allowing individual brilliance to shine through.
