Peter Wright

Broschiertes Buch

The Cactus Approach - Building blocks for invincible teams

Beschreibung

After nearly sixty years of participating in team and group activities and about half that time spent in coaching and studying the functionality of teams, I feel I've come to a conclusive level of understanding about what makes one team work better than another. Yet this all started as an investigation. Starting with the big question - why do some teams look great on paper yet come up short in the reality of performance? For with all great teams, they are always greater than the sum of the skills and attributes of their individual members. Is it mere chemistry - or is there something far more tangible, and therefore accessible, going on? Is it the vision and personalities of the leaders, coaches, mentors and managers - or is there a formula, a template? My conclusion was the six elements that make up the acronym CACTUS, and in this book those elements are explained and explored.

Autor

Having left school at the age of fourteen, Peter Wright got his first job as a labourer in a chicken hatchery. This was followed by a year of Liberal Studies at Newbattle Abbey College, which he describes as life-changing. A career in youth work followed and he went on to become manager of the Duke of Edinburgh`s Award Unit in the City of Edinburgh Council; a post he held for over twenty years, during which he was awarded MBE. With his mantra of volunteering makes the world go round, Peter has been an exemplar of this throughout his adult life. From this, a diverse range of organisations and programmes, mainly charitable, have been variously founded or developed by him. This has included projects for young people - especially the disadvantaged, in heritage and environmental action. More recently he has been an activist in supporting the provision of education for girls amongst the Maasai People in Kenya. Writing was an accidental outcome of his epic 1,200km walk along the entire Watershed of Scotland when he was in his fifties, and he has been glad to share his experiences with ever-widening audiences. `Clearly, you are having a love affair . . . with the landscapes of Scotland`, was the perceptive comment by one of the editors of his first book, and he is known to be more than happy with this accolade.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lulu.com
• Seitenzahl: 110
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 154g
• ISBN-13: 9781326468576
• ISBN-10: 132646857X
• Artikelnr.: 44475516