Screwed or The 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player

Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class - and What We Can Do About It

Author: Thom Hartmann

Nationally syndicated radio host and bestselling author Thom Hartmann exposes the covert war conservatives, and corporations are waging against America's middle class'a war that's reducing the rest of us to a politically impotent working poor. This book asks: How did this happen? Who's benefiting? And how can we stop it?

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The 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player: Becoming the Kind of Person Every Team Wants

Author: John C Maxwell

John C. Maxwell takes the pain out of knowing what makes a team tick. If you want to have a better team, you have to develop better players.

The qualities Maxwell teaches quickly take you to the heart of teamwork. Anybody can understand them and apply them-whether at home, on the job, at church, or on the ball field. If you learn the seventeen essential qualities of a team player, you can become the kind of person every team wants. If everyone on your team does it, there will be no holding you back.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments	ix
	Introduction	xi
1	Adaptable: If You Won't Change for the Team, the Team May Change You	1
2	Collaborative: Working Together Precedes Winning Together	10
3	Committed: There Are No Halfhearted Champions	19
4	Communicative: A Team Is Many Voices with a Single Heart	28
5	Competent: If You Can't, Your Team Won't	37
6	Dependable: Teams Go to Go-To Players	46
7	Disciplined: Where There's a Will, There's a Win	55
8	Enlarging: Adding Value to Teammates Is Invaluable	63
9	Enthusiastic: Your Heart Is the Source of Energy for the Team	71
10	Intentional: Make Every Action Count	80
11	Mission Conscious: The (Big) Picture Is Coming in Loud and Clear	89
12	Prepared: Preparation Can Mean the Difference Between Winning and Losing	98
13	Relational: If You Get Along, Others Will Go Along	107
14	Self-Improving: To Improve the Team, Improve Yourself	116
15	Selfless: There Is No I in Team	125
16	Solution Oriented: Make a Resolution to Find the Solution	134
17	Tenacious: Never, Never, Never Quit	141
	Conclusion	150
	Notes	152
	About the Author	156