Mark Murphy shares insights from his research on maximizing team effectiveness.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) Why you don’t want a team of all “team players”

2) The simple trick for more decisive teams

3) How to get your team to generate 3X more valuable ideas

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— ABOUT MARK —

Mark Murphy is a New York Times bestselling author, Senior Contributor to Forbes, and

Founder of Leadership IQ, a research and training firm. His latest book is TEAM PLAYERS: The Five Critical Roles You Need to Build A Winning Team. Mark’s previous bestselling books include: Hiring for Attitude, Hundred Percenters, HARD Goals, Managing Narcissists, Blamers, Dramatics and more.

Mark leads one of the world’s largest databases of original leadership research, and his work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Fortune, Forbes, Bloomberg, BusinessWeek, Harvard Business Review, and U.S. News & World Report. He’s been a featured guest on programs including CBS News Sunday Morning, ABC’s 20/20, Fox Business News, CNN International and NPR.

Some of his most well-known research studies include “Why New Hires Fail,” “Are SMART Goals Dumb?,” “Why CEO's Get Fired,” “High Performers Can Be Less Engaged,” and “Don’t Expect Layoff Survivors to Be Grateful.” Mark has conducted training for The United Nations, Harvard Business School, Microsoft, IBM, MasterCard, Merck, and thousands more.

• Book: Team Players: The Five Critical Roles You Need to Build a Winning Team

• Quiz: “Team Player Quiz: What Type Of Team Player Are You?"

• Website: LeadershipIQ.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Study: “Studies in the Principles of Judgments and Attitudes: II. Determination of Judgments by Group and by Ego Standards” by S.E. Asch

• Book: Escape from Freedom by Erich Fromm

• Past episode: 256: Science-based Solutions for Delivering Tough Truth at Work with Mark Murphy

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