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Team Players
The Five Critical Roles You Need to Build a Winning Team
Contributors
By Mark Murphy
Formats and Prices
- On Sale
- Oct 7, 2025
- Page Count
- 272 pages
- Publisher
- Basic Venture
- ISBN-13
- 9781541705975
Price
$30.00Price
$40.00 CADFormat
Format:
- Hardcover $30.00 $40.00 CAD
- ebook $18.99 $24.99 CAD
- Audiobook Download (Unabridged) $24.99
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The conventional wisdom is wrong about how great teams are built. Great teams worry less about cohesion and more about assembling the right group of people with complementary talents and personalities. No amount of teambuilding, trust, or cohesion can overcome having the wrong mix of people in the room.
In Team Players, Mark Murphy argues that the best teams contain an ideal mix of five vital roles: Director, Achiever, Stabilizer, Harmonizer, and Trailblazer. Murphy’s groundbreaking research shows how to unlock each team member’s talents and position them to succeed within the team.
Murphy reveals how unlocking the Directors, Achievers, Stabilizers, Harmonizers, and Trailblazers on your team solves teams’ absence of accountability, the torment of aimless meetings, the unfairness of uneven workloads, the scarcity of active participation, the chaos of clashing agendas, and the dearth of decisiveness.
With a balance of hard-hitting research and compelling real-world examples, this book is a pivotal read for anyone keen on accelerating team development while allowing individual brilliance to shine through.
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“Team Players is an important book that shows us a team needs more than just strong leaders—it needs the right mix of five roles and talents to succeed. Mark Murphy helps leaders discover their style and the complementary roles they need to build winning and successful teams.”Ken Hicks, president and CEO, PetSmart
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“Mark Murphy’s Team Players is a must-read for everyone who needs to make things happen with a team or group. After 35 years as a CEO, I’ve always believed in the power of teamwork—but had I possessed Murphy’s research and insights earlier in my career, I know I would have built even more effective and successful teams.”Robert Rosenberg, retired CEO, Dunkin’ Donuts; author of Around the Corner to Around the World
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“No one has more experience with teams than Mark Murphy. His five-player team model allows you to quickly diagnose when and why a team is failing and provides actionable advice for successfully leading teams. This is incredibly well-written, and I couldn’t stop reading!”Keith Sawyer, author of Group Genius
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