Winning Ways: 4 Secrets for Getting Results by Working Well With People

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Summary: One of tools to Win
Review: Summary

The story is about the brilliant Albert graduated from the University of Northeastern Michigan (UNM) and he was hired by UGAT (United Global Advance Technologies) quickly because of his intelligent. Albert is very efficient, however, he had poor interpersonal skills and had a problem to work with other people in ??Tiger Team??. He believed working alone is better. He felt intellectually superior and rejected others ideas. Therefore, he asked his boss, Megan, let him not work with ??Tiger Team??.

His boss sent Albert introduced the famous football coach who set the best record in the history of all of college football and knew the secrets of his winning ways in UNM to him and asked him to learn about the things her taught his team. Over the course of several meetings, the coach taught our hero four principals of working well with others:

1. Making others feel stronger, rather than weaker: give power away to people, the more you give, the more you get

2. Camels are okay: collaborating with others, leveraging their unique talents through others, combining the strengths and vision of everyone on the team to create something everyone can get behind and support

3. Avoiding two-valued thinking: everything is neither good nor bad, nor is one better than the others

4. Influencing for the future: blaming for the future is usefulness for solving problems but need to learn from the past experience as it always is the best teacher to your life

Comments

Easy to read and understand

It is written as context of story as the theory from the coach are given in a story format People can easy to understand what are going on and it is similar to their real life as many people may have the same problem as Albert that can??t work well in a team with other teammates. Feeling own self as the top of people is always the problem of the people who can??t work well with people in a team.

Entertaining

Besides mentioning the four secrets of winning ways, the story finally ended with a marriage of Albert and his teammate Jennifer who had conflicts with Albert before. It is not dry as other book that just mentioning the theory.

The book has good ideas in theory, however, the usefulness and possibility of the four secrets of Winning Ways is uncertain. It is unrealistic to have a good interpersonal skill and good relationship by just using this Winning Ways. Learning about people shouldn??t be seen skimming through a book. People keep changing and also their mind. Moreover, I think working well with people is not just the four secrets in the book. Love, passion, honesty etc there are many elements to build up a good relationship with people. Changing the value and ways of thinking of people may have a higher priority to use this winning ways.

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Summary: END OF THE INDIVIDUAL
Review: The empahasis of society as of late has been on the team rather than the individual. However, I am quite certain that events and inventions of a historical manner were never accomplished by a committee.
The individual spirit that made this country great no longer exists. Universities no longer are places of free thought but rather restrict the students to whatever the new PC movement may be at the time.

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Summary: What Winning Ways Said to me
Review: This book told me that being an independant person isn't always the way to get a job done. By taking the time to work with others,your coming up with different and new ideas on how to accomplish a project. Your not only going to get the job done quicker and more accurately but you'll have fun doing it to!Your actually getting an opportunity of a lifetime, working with people that truly appreciates your input and having others back you up. Working as a team makes your job more simple and fun!! On a personal note I always used to think that my ideas were the right way and that I knew the way to go about doing things, and whenever someone would question my actions I would find myself getting defensive. After reading this book, it showed me that stepping back and actually listening to other peoples input that yes my idea was alright but, hey putting my ideas with theres will just make things come out in the end bigger & better. By talking things out first with others rather than jumping into something your getting feed back and that truly feels rewarding and refreshing. This book taught me alot and I would definately recommend that companies sit down and read this together and learn that team work is the way to go and everyones opinions truly matter!!!

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Summary: A phenomenal book destined to be a classic.
Review: Winning Ways is one of those truly unique books that grabs you and won't let you go. It's one of the few books I've ever read where I actually remembered the lessons the next day.

In this case the lessons are four incredibly powerful "secrets" anyone can use to be more effective in their dealings with other people. The lessons are presented in the form of a very entertaining parable with characters we can all relate to. The simplicity, combined with the power, of this book's message make it one everyone should read.

After reading it, I put it down for a moment, and said "Wow." Not only can I use these ideas, but if I do and others do as well, the world will be a much better place. Then I immediately thought of three friends I couldn't wait to share it with. Thanks, Dick Lyles, for giving us such a powerful message in such an entertaining way.