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Never shall I fail my comrades. I will always keep myself mentally alert, physically strong, and morally straight and I will shoulder more than my share of the task, whatever it may be. One hundred percent and then some.
—excerpt from the Ranger Creed
The Army Rangers are known for their solid teamwork, single-minded pursuit of a goal, and commitment to excellence. In Rangers Lead the Way, authors Dean Hohl and Maryann Karinch show how you can adapt the Rangers' principles of leadership and teamwork to the workplace—and generate incredible results.
By implementing the successful philosophy behind America's most elite military regime, you can:
·Create a corporate vision
·Establish a successful manager/leader dichotomy
·Identify friends and foes within your organization
·Stay a step ahead of the competition
·Maximize time and resources
·Accomplish goals faster and more effectively
Rangers Lead the Way shows you how to instill the values, lessons, and insights that are essential to helping your team survive, thrive, and triumph over the competition.
Customer Reviews:
Insightful!.......2004-06-09
As an Army Ranger, Dean Hohl endured Ranger School, in which he was forced to figure out how to survive 14 days in the woods with only 14 meals. He later parachuted into Panama during the U.S. invasion. Now a consultant who leads corporate types through Ranger-style boot camps, Hohl and co-author Maryann Karinch make a convincing case that business leaders can benefit from the same type of training Rangers are given. Organizations need leaders who are flexible and communicative, he argues in an engaging and illustrative way. Hohl resists the temptation to dwell too much on his own war stories, although at times he'd do well to rely more on his experiences and less on bloodless summaries of corporate problems seemingly parroted from the business press. We recommend this book to any manager who leads or works with a team. If you wish that your team could act like a Ranger platoon, start reading.
Ranger Principles DO Lead The Way.......2004-05-29
This is a very insightful publication. It shows you how to create an action plan and how to follow through with it, all the while using your team mates' various personality types to the team's advantage. Dean has the ability to speak on every man's level and often uses his own real life Ranger experiences to demonstrate the principles he teaches-extremely effective. I have given copies of this book out to my co-workers and friends with great excitement of what they will learn from it.
Insightful!.......2003-10-15
As an Army Ranger, Dean Hohl endured Ranger School, in which he was forced to figure out how to survive 14 days in the woods with only 14 meals. He later parachuted into Panama during the U.S. invasion. Now a consultant who leads corporate types through Ranger-style boot camps, Hohl and co-author Maryann Karinch make a convincing case that business leaders can benefit from the same type of training Rangers are given. Organizations need leaders who are flexible and communicative, he argues in an engaging and illustrative way. Hohl resists the temptation to dwell too much on his own war stories, although at times he'd do well to rely more on his experiences and less on bloodless summaries of corporate problems seemingly parroted from the business press. We recommend this book to any manager who leads or works with a team. If you wish that your team could act like a Ranger platoon, start reading.
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Real-world SCM for real-world developers.......2007-09-28
This is an outstanding book for software development teams that see software configuration management as a means to an end, not the end itself. The author immediately establishes credibility with me when he says in the preface "Software configuration management is not what I do. I am not a software configuration management person...I build software systems" Exactly! It's obvious throughout the book that the authors develop software systems and use SCM to effectively support their development effort, not the other way around.
The format of the book is very consistent and thus very easy to read. Each pattern has its own chapter and clearly identifies the problem and the solution in a particular context. It doesn't waste any paper and is a quick read and has been a reference I continue to use on a regular basis. The authors have taken something that can quickly become complex and make it easy to understand.
The authors have a very natural writing style and effectively use sidebars to bring their real-world experiences to the pattern. This book is a must read for software developers. I wish I could give it six stars.
Given my background in CI, I was most drawn to the Mainline, Private Workspace, Repository, Private System Build, Integration Build, Regression Test, and Third Party Codeline patterns. But, there is something for all developers and teams here.
Very little useful information.......2007-09-11
I am surprised to apparently be the only person to find this book disappointing. Let me go into the details.
Physical book.
I rarely comment on the physical book but I need to mention the bad printing. Many pictures and graphs in the book are not printed correctly. Instead they appear as gray rectangles.
Content.
The book is divided into three parts: an introduction, the Software Configuration Management (SCM) patterns, and appendices with information on SCM systems.
The introduction is a waste of paper. The author spends time defining concepts (such as 'organization') without bringing any insights to configuration management. I assume that part was written to fill in the book. You can safely skip it.
Some of the patterns are useful and nicely presented. The need for a mainline and how to branch before a release are the two that stand out. They are good advice. Unfortunately most patterns are not explained appropriately. For example, the author presents several patterns related to tests (unit tests, smoke tests, regression tests). The patterns explain why you would want to do those tests. The problem is that the author does not make the connection to configuration management. What are the best practices to integrate tests with SCM? The answer is not in the book.
The final part about the various SCM systems is again a filler with little usefulness.
There are several topics I wish had been included:
- Topology: how best to distribute the SCM system.
- Buddy builds: what are the best practices related to buddy builds, i.e., building before making a check-in.
I was looking forward to reading this book. Now that I have, I feel very much let down. The useful information could be contained in less than 10 pages.
Mileage working with software development teams .......2007-03-21
Objective, clear and simple. War stories told by a intellectually savvy trooper are not complex. They tell us about complex scenarios in a simple way. Field experience. It's what this book is all about. Not about procedures, but practices based on well known, or not so, patterns, for you to use with your teams to win your battles. It's up to you. Think about them. Use them wisely.
Sorry for the military metaphor but seemed to me appropriate.
Great resource for leads, managers, and build masters.......2006-10-18
There really aren't too many books that cover the subject of SCM and this one does a very good job of overviewing all the issues. Although he does give examples and opinions on different tools and platforms, the book is not written for any particular one. I especially like the fact that he is coming from a developer's perspective in the sense that the need for SCM has been brought upon him, like most of us, and it's not something he initially persued. Things like source control directory structure, versioning, builds, build policies, etc. are issues that are eventually dealt with by tech leads and/or tech managers but few usually have any formal experience with it. Anyone who has been in a small or large development shop knows how critical these issues are to the entire development process.
I also bought Build Master by Vincent Maraia which is also an excellent book but I felt that his position has always been specifically a build master and the book dealt with very large build projects that had dedicated teams. In constrast, Berczuk and Appleton's book is more broad so that a lone developer/manager assigned to the daunting tasks of setting up SCM environments can achieve this and have a general guide for holding down the fort.
Just the book that SCM needed.......2006-10-13
One of the most annoying things about Software Configuration Management is the amount of different terms that exist - especially when the refer to the same things! This seminal book helps address this challenge by identifying a set of readily consumable and well defined patterns. If you don't know your code mainline from your active development line, or how developer testing, building and integration are all linked together, then you need to read this book.
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Explores the design and leadership of groups, providing detailed descriptions of twenty-seven diverse work groups--including task forces, top management groups, production teams, and customer service teams--to offer insights into what factors affect group productivity, and what leaders and group members can do to improve work group effectiveness.
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Effective Teamwork
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Proven results.......2007-09-25
I have used this book with two different HR teams, both times with excellent results. The chapters cover the basics of what makes a healthy team, and when used in a group environment can help members identify the elements necessary for them to participate and contribute to a team. I found that the straightforward approach allows people to easily grasp concepts and translate them into action items. We had great fun making our way through the book together, and found that activities were easily conceived of to reinforce lessons learned.
Five stars!
Judy Morris
Vice President of Human Resources
Cloud 10 Corp
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How Teamwork Works: The Dynamics of Effective Team Development
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The ABCs of Team Success Why do some teams pull together to perform at the highest level while others never quite jell? How is a team's identity formed? What's the best way to get team members to commit to team goals? You'll find the answers to these questions and dozens more in How Teamwork Works: The Dynamics of Effective Team Development, by John Syer and Chris Connolly. Rather than retreading the role of teams in the organization, you get the nuts and bolts of small group dynamics along with hands-on advice for identifying and exploiting the factors that motivate team members. You also get insights on how to help a team build relationships, discover its identity, self-direct, perform at peak efficiency and more. Accomplish team tasks in record-breaking time; build winning team systems; conduct highly effective team meetings; Develop full team potential; Excel with project teams and task forces; Form powerful team-member relationships to ensure top performance.
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Approaching teamwork from the technical professional's perspective, this comprehensive, hands-on manual provides a ten-step model for effective teamwork and covers the essential teamwork principles with simulation cases in every chapter. The volume addresses the three types of team—work teams, improvement teams and standing committees—as well as the factors that work against effective teamwork, the character traits that promote effective teamwork and team leadership principles. The volume outlines a ten-step model to effective teamwork, establishing direction and goals, clear roles and ground-rules for teams and accountability, as well as developing team-leadership skills, communication skills and conflict-management skills. The volume also teaches how to establish a well-defined decision-making process and empower team members, positive team behaviors, recognize and reward team performance and make teamwork part of the culture. For engineers, architects, manufacturing personnel, construction managers, computer professionals and other technical professionals.
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Pulling together: The 17 principles of effective teamwork (Successories library)
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Most organizations see effective teamwork as essential to their success, but find that the reality of working in teams presents many practical difficulties. This text, based on rigorous research evidence, provides all the tools necessary to help teams overcome these difficulties, including case studies, discussion questions, exercises and questionnaires.Drawing on the latest psychological research, Effective Teamwork examines the factors which affect team functioning both positively and negatively. For the second edition, the text has been updated to include:-New chapters on creating teams and conflicts in teams.New sections on introducing teamwork, on virtual team working and team working across national boundaries, on emotions in teams, and on trust within and between teams.More material on team leadership, on the sorts of tasks that are best done by teams, and on the relationship between working in teams and mental health.
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In the new global environment for organizations, it is often assumed that business leaders from across the world will have dramatically different views of effective leadership. Surprisingly, there is a striking consensus on this issue among managers from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. This report presents a study that compared the responses of leaders from six European Union countries and the United States about their perceptions of work-related values of effective leaders and team members. The results yield a profile of effective leadership for those working in cross-national teams in the European Union and provide a framework for thinking about how to develop effective cross-national alliances anywhere.
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