Winning is a team sport, right? True, we need to collaborate to make sense of today's challenges. But simply bringing people together is no guarantee of success. Too often, so-called teams are just groups of individuals, attending too many aimless meetings. It doesn't have to be that way. Using the author's high-performing teams framework, Are You a Team or a Meeting? shows team leaders and members alike how to: * create teams of the right size and composition * focus on team purpose to help you prioritise * encourage healthy challenge and open communication * develop systems, habits and behaviours that help teams win

A brilliant, practical guide on how to make teamwork work again -- Steve Martin, bestselling author of Yes!
Refreshingly practical - it challenged me to move beyond running meetings and inspired me to build a team with real purpose, trust, and results -- Paddy Hull, Senior Director Global Talent & Leadership at Heineken
Hope is at hand with this excellent book by Nick Pope. . . I thoroughly recommend it for team leaders working in any sector, and for team coaches -- Professor Peter Hawkins best-selling author of Systemic Coaching
Dr Nick Pope's wry observations of what a team actually is and what can so easily go wrong will have you smiling in recognition. He's certainly put in the hours - deep academic research as well working with over a thousand teams across fifty different countries - and it really shows. His highly practical insights into how to make collaboration (which goes beyond cooperation) real and effective should be read by anyone who is - or wants to be - a leader -- Neil Mullarkey, author of In The Moment

Nick Pope has two decades of experience working with leading companies such as Nike, Unilever, Gucci, M&S, and Lloyds Bank, helping them develop effective teams at all levels of their organisations. He has published with the British Academy of Management and in several industry trade journals. He currently lives in Sydney, Australia, with regular trips to the US and his native UK.