Geoffrey M. Bellman
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Geoffrey M. Bellman

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MY MOST RECENT BOOK Co-Author Kathleen Ryan and I share a fascination with great teams: What makes them work so wonderfully? How are they different from the teams most of us know? What could an ordinary team do to become extraordinary? We studied sixty great teams with those questions in mind and learned much more than we expected to. Plus, we wrote a book about it: EXTRAORDINARY GROUPS: HOW ORDINARY TEAMS ACHIEVE AMAZING RESULTS. Teams--and committees and crews and boards and groups--are more essential than ever! We are dependent on them in all aspects of our living and working together. Our challenge is integrating good people into effective group structures. We decided to find out by going to sixty quite different but extraordinary teams. Our logic was why not learn from those teams that are already performing beautifully? Our conclusions reached into realms both gratifying and surprising. We describe all of this in EXTRAORDINARY GROUPS. Go to our website to learn the essence of our discoveries: www.extraordinaryteams.us/essential-elements/ AND... EXTRAORDINARY GROUPS has since morphed into a team assessment tool. THE EXTRAORDINARY TEAMS INVENTORY allows you to compare your team to extraordinary teams that were part of our continuing research that now includes over 300 teams. Team members complete a twenty minute questionnaire on-line and quickly learn where the team stands on the essential elements leading to being extraordinary. Find out more at www.extraordinaryteams.us/services/ Or www.hrdq.com. As you will see on our website, our band of consultants, coaches, and trainers have been meeting monthly to continue our research and build on the base our book established over twelve years ago. Meet some of us at www.extraordinaryteams.us/resources/ OTHER BOOKS & BACKGROUND Over forty years, I've seen organizations and work from many angles. I've been a corporate director, struggling with life in the middle of the company muddle--my first book, THE QUEST FOR STAFF LEADERSHIP, grew out of that. My years as a consultant resulted in THE CONSULTANTS CALLING: BRINGING WHO YOU ARE TO WHAT YOU DO. I put my decades-long love/hate relationship with organizations between the covers of THE BEAUTY OF THE BEAST: BREATHING NEW LIFE INTO ORGANIZATIONS. Watching my clients (and myself)aspire to greatness within companies controlled by others-not-me led to GETTING THINGS DONE WHEN YOU ARE NOT IN CHARGE. And along the way I was living my own life, leading to YOUR SIGNATURE PATH: GAINING NEW PERSPECTIVES ON LIFE AND WORK. ABOUT MY WRITING: Like many of us, I am most effective when I have a chance to step back and reflect before taking action. My books come out of reflection. The process begins with a conversation between myself and my screen, capturing my current fascinations. No outline, no subject really, just reflecting and writing to myself. This results in 200-300 hundred pages before my writing energy is spent. Then, I print it out and read it for the first time. What am I talking about??? I'm usually surprised at the number of useful (and useless) thoughts I generate. The useful thoughts usually merge into a skeletal structure for my thinking and an eventual book. I often don't know what "animal" these bones will form. And, of course, some bones are missing and some I have too many of. Though I am intentional about what I'm creating, I'm always surprised at what emerges in this most creative part of the process.
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