Flyingfox a Business Adventure in Teams and Teamwork
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ISBN: 0814450997 / Publisher: Amacom Books, June 1993
A business novel demonstrates how teamwork can help improve quality and increase creativity
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Why is Ron Delaney having corporate nightmares? In FlyingFox, a business novel about teams in the workplace, Ron has embarked on the daunting eighteen-month task of leading the cross-functional team that must develop, manufacture, and market a revolutionary piece of communications equipment - code-named "FlyingFox." As any veteran of a cross-functional team can tell you, unless the process is well managed, it can be a true nightmare.In FlyingFox, you'll watch Ron and his team members as they butt heads, tussle over the trivial and the crucial, and wrestle their way toward becoming a unit that can achieve much more together than separately. Along the way, this steel-and-glass drama provides important lessons about teams: how to deal with the typical phases in a team's life, why technology can either contribute to or impede success, how to set clear, achievable goals, how to make sure communication is open and - most important of all - how to create a group that works together.Team FlyingFox is made up of a compelling cast of characters - some likeable, some cagey, some downright ornery - including Nick Yu, the pure-minded engineer; Kate Fiersen, the marketing dynamo with her eye on that crack in the glass ceiling; Dr. Emil Zanoski, the icy duke of research and development; Carlos Garcia, the plant manager with a chip on his shoulder; Wesley Dunn, the company-lifer who's "seen it all before"; and Phyllis Burch, the shy purchasing agent who's got more power than she realizes.Follow Ron and his brave crew as they battle against turf wars, red-tape disease, and personal prejudices in order to outfox the competition with a flyaway success.Then maybe Ron's nightmares will finally be over.
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