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Summary: Nice little book!
Review: "High Five! The Magic of Working Together" is a good read. Instead of telling you straight off the points of how to build a good team. It tells a story about how an unemployed transforms a hockey crowd to a team. Of course, there are plenty of over-simplification. However, I think one can still benefit greatly from this book. The principles are simple, but are hard to implement in real life. How often do you see people use reward instead of fault-finding to improve a team .... The book is written in a simple language that even children can understand. This is definite a nice book to bring on the bus or train to read on your journey to the office. :)
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Summary: Simple and Unrealistic!
Review: "High Five" is yet another over-simplified book with a kid's storyline that may work on the school playing field, but to intelligent adult employees it is just an unrealistic phrase thoughtlessly spouted at those well-intentioned leadership/teamwork meetings. My co-workers and I have found that genuine teamwork, especially management/employee teamwork, requires far more than just a short kid's story to be successful. Having read the hilarious and witty-sharp satire, "MANAGEMENT BY VICE", we all agreed that the naive concept of "High Five" teamwork is actually just a "Management Spoof" -- one of the many real-life eye-openers in "Management by Vice", where you'll find out for yourself what truly needs to be addressed to make teamwork a company success!
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Summary: Puck Power!
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Join Alan Foster on his quest to find the true meaning of teamwork. He loses his job for not being a team player; then rediscovers his inner team spirit by coaching his son's 5th grade hocky team. Could easily be a Disney movie -- The One Minute Manager meets The Mighty Ducks. Flows well and easy-to-digest.
• Mark Kelly, coauthor of MASTERING TEAM LEADERSHIP: 7 ESSENTIAL COACHING SKILLS
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Summary: Gung Ho! for High Five
Review: A great book for not only the blue collar workers but the ivory tower group (especially) as well. Blanchard and Company again take a complicated subject such as teamwork and make it so simple by putting it in a parable format. Once the reader sees how these timeless principles apply to a 5th grade hockey team, Alan applies the same principles in his work life.
This would be a great read for our kid's coaches too!
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Summary: Work Better in Teams and Also When NOT in Teams
Review: Blanchard and Bolles have done it again! HIGH FIVE, which is the fourth parable these two have created, is a real treat and a must read for anyone who ever has to work in or around teams. The book is loaded with ideas that will lead your team to the kind of success that will have everyone giving each other high five hand slaps with gusto. However, there's a way you can take this enthusiasm and interpersonal effectiveness even one step higher. HIGH FIVE focuses primarily on teams and teamwork, and it does a terrific job...HIGH FIVE will give you all the good information you need to build powerful teams and make them effective....
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Summary: Over hyped and under substanced
Review: Don't waste your money! This... ripoff reads like a 3rd grade think-and-do book. Blanchard makes up a little story about a star performer who loses his job, sees the light and buys into the group think of teamwork. Someone needs to tell Blanchard that in the real word, individual performance gets the bucks, not teamwork. He hides behind the innocence of a kids hockey team to drive home his simplistic solution of how team fixes all. In the real leagues, Mr. Blanchard, a hockey player's salary is not dependent on how well he plays as a team member, but on just how skilled he is at hogging the puck and making the goal. Corporate America works the same way. When is someone going to write a book about that?
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Summary: High Five gets a High 5
Review: Easy to read, whether it is for children or adults. The concept of being a team player in today's society is amplified on more than one occassion. After reading this book, I did a needs assessment of my staff to find out their perceptions on team work at our work location. I found out many areas that I, as a leader, and the staff can work on to increase the team work. I ordered over 100 of the books to give to my staff members. An excellent book and an easy read.
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Summary: High Five gets a High 5
Review: Easy to read, whether it is for children or adults. The concept of being a team player in today's society is amplified on more than one occassion. After reading this book, I did a needs assessment of my staff to find out their perceptions on team work at our work location. I found out many areas that I, as a leader, and the staff can work on to increase the team work. I ordered over 100 of the books to give to my staff members. An excellent book and an easy read.
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Summary: High Praise for High Five!
Review: Excellent little story, excellent simple message. Made me cry more than once. This would be a great book for coaches and managers, or for anyone else who leads a team. If everyone read this book, kids would get a lot more our of being in youth sports and people would enjoy their jobs more. Good job Blanchard!
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Summary: The Book of Teamwork
Review: High Five! in my opion was a great book. The story about a man getting fired and yet he came back to do a job for which he was fired. Teamwork in many things in life is a much needed thing. People must work as a team everywhere or things won't get done. This is a great book that teaches how people should learn to work together and when they do anything is possible. I recommend that all people should read this book, it will make life a lot easier and working with peers much better.
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