Do Big Things: The Simple Steps Teams Can Take to Mobilize Hearts and Minds, and Make an Epic Impact

by Craig Ross, Angela V. Paccione, Victoria L. Roberts

An inspiring, practical and progress-oriented blueprint for energetic achievement. Amid constant swirl, uncertainty, and complexity is your team capable of doing big things? Too often people are pulled together, labeled a “team,” given a directive, and expected to deliver results quickly. Soon, however, due to lack of focus, increasing pressures and competing priorities the team suffers from distracted, hopelessly stressed and disconnected from one another. Predictably, the team flatlines and the energy needed to succeed is lost. Based upon research of what successful teams do to overcome severe odds, Do Big Things presents an intuitive, seven-step process that equips teams with how to quickly and consistently operate in a manner necessary for success. Team members develop the self-awareness and ability Filled with practical tools and engaging stories of teams today, Do Big Things equips leaders with “the how” to quickly identify and activate the behaviors needed to achieve more than you or your team ever thought possible. Idea and information exchanges interlock the hand, head and heart of each team member to get everyone moving toward a common goal. Increasingly, individually and collectively, the team becomes emotionally stronger and more productive as they do their work. Do Big Things provides your team with the common language necessary to be authentic, empathetic and transparent, so that potential barriers to success come to light – faster. This empowers the team to be more accountable with an enterprise mindset, because they can have the profound discussions needed to adapt quicker to unforeseen challenges and demonstrate an innovative reflex. By applying the concepts in this book, the team’s daily interactions are transformed, focus is sustained, and energetic progress toward your goals is triggered. Every member of your team wants to succeed. Do Big Things provides a straightforward method to bring greater meaning to the work everyone does so the team delivers extraordinary performance together. You know what your team can achieve―now use the proven method to enable them to do it.

256 pages, Hardcover

Published August 11, 2017

Reviews

[Fi · Rating 3 out of 5]

No one can do "big things" alone, you need an amazing team where everyone is 100% committed.

Do Big Things shows us how amazing teams are formed with the minds of individuals, from inside to the outside. It put people right in the center - it all boils down to communications, aligning motivations, developing shared visions, being focused, asking the right questions etc.

While none of this is very surprising, the well-structured 7-step framework and clear recommendations on the action points could be particularly useful for HR or managers.

You may want to read it
▫️If you work in any type of team environment
▫️If you aspire to be a great team leader
▫️If you are looking to improve your team dynamics

But, you might skip it if you are an individual with limited influence for whatever reason. The framework needs buy-in from the top, it seems impossible to achieve bottom up. If you are already in a dysfunctional team, you might get even more frustrated because you now know how a great team could look like....

Not super inspired.