Team Building: Proven Strategies for Improving Team Performance, 5th Edition

INTRODUCTION

This book is for everyone concerned about effective team performance. Four previous editions of Team Building have been well received by managers, team leaders, and team consultants. In fact, over 100,000 copies have been sold in several languages over the almost three decades since our father, William G. “Bill” Dyer, wrote the first edition, making it one of the most widely read books on the subject. Bill was the consummate social scientist, trained in sociology at the University of Wisconsin after World War II. He had grown up in a family of seven children (one was his half-brother Jack Gibb, another prominent social scientist) in a rather poor section of Portland, Oregon. Bill’s father ran a small grocery store attached to their ...