The Team X Project

The Team X Project
Author: Ezequiel Escamilla
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 131
Release: 2016-12-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1524654116

The US Government trained them to be the best super spies that the CIA had ever seen. They do not exist except for the darkest of hours. Now the timing is crucial for the CIA and NSA to move on a plot to put a terrorist leader into power of the free world. The president is not Senator McNeal, who the American people had voted for in the last election. He is in fact the leader of a terrorist organization that wants to take control of the free world. Only the CIA cant go through the usual channels to stop them. They must put all their trust in one team and pray for the best in their darkest hour. The team has been assembled and has not had action in four years now. All the hopes of the nation and security of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are up to Robert and Team X. Will they pull it off in the nick of time, or will they fail and its too late? Only time will tell, and they are our last and only hope to preserve freedom for the American people.

X-Teams

X-Teams
Author: Deborah Ancona
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2007-05-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1422148068

Why do good teams fail? Very often, argue Deborah Ancona and Henrik Bresman, it is because they are looking inward instead of outward. Based on years of research examining teams across many industries, Ancona and Bresman show that traditional team models are falling short, and that what’s needed--and what works--is a new brand of team that emphasizes external outreach to stakeholders, extensive ties, expandable tiers, and flexible membership. The authors highlight that X-teams not only are able to adapt in ways that traditional teams aren’t, but that they actually improve an organization’s ability to produce creative ideas and execute them—increasing the entrepreneurial and innovative capacity within the firm. What’s more, the new environment demands what the authors call “distributed leadership,” and the book highlights how X-teams powerfully embody this idea.

Project X Origins: Dark Blue Book Band, Oxford Level 15: Top Secret: Team X

Project X Origins: Dark Blue Book Band, Oxford Level 15: Top Secret: Team X
Author: Tony Bradman
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780198303305

Dani Day recruits a new adult Team X, but Max, Cat, Ant and Tiger are reluctant to give their watches up and return to their boring lives. Can they prove to Dani that they would make a better Team X instead? This book is part of Project X Origins, a ground-breaking guided reading programme for the whole school.

Results Without Authority

Results Without Authority
Author: Tom Kendrick
Publisher: Amacom Books
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2006
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0814429572

When you're a project manager with a team of people who don't technically report to you, your challenge is to get Results Without Authority. This book delivers proven techniques for controlling projects and managing diverse teams in a wide variety of situations, and bringing those projects to successful closure. The concepts in this book are essential for all project managers, with and without authority, because they offer a productive alternative to "command and control" management techniques that can easily backfire. Tom Kendrick's system will help you get successful project results from diverse, cross-functional, virtual, outsourced, and other types of project teams by showing how to establish and build: Control Through Process. Key project management processes, infrastructure, and the role of the project office. Control Through Influence. Productive leadership styles, reciprocity, and maintaining relationships. Control Through Project Metrics. Quantitative, predictive, diagnostic, and retrospective metrics for project control, motivating desired behaviors, and avoiding potential problems. Control Through Project Initiation. The role of the sponsor in project control, the importance of project vision, project launch documentation, and the project start-up workshop. Control Through Project Planning. Collaborative planning as the foundation of project control; planning as a key factor in setting baselines and establishing metrics. Control During Project Execution. Measurement and interpretation of project status, informal communication, and maintaining relationships as keys to maintaining control. Control Through Tracking and Monitoring. Controlling scope and other project parameters; formal project communication and reporting, rewards and recognition, and project reviews. Enhancing Overall Control Through Project Closure. Sign-off, evaluating retrospective project metrics, celebrating, and rewarding the team; improving long-term project control through lessons learned. Packed with invaluable guidance for controlling projects of all scopes and in any field, Results Without Authority will help novice and experienced project leaders get the best from their project teams.

Team-Based Project Management

Team-Based Project Management
Author: James P. Lewis
Publisher: Beard Books
Total Pages: 252
Release: 1998
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781587982293

A handy guide on what it takes to be a successful project manager and team leader. A true classic in the field!

Leading Project Teams

Leading Project Teams
Author: Anthony T. Cobb
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2011-04-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1412991706

The Second Edition of Leading Project Teams offers an accessible introduction to the important basics of project management while providing key issues and pointers on team leadership. Easy to read, this engaging book assumes little to no knowledge of project management. Leading Project Teams quickly leads the reader through the fundamentals including how to start a project, how to assign tasks, how to write clear project reports, and much, much more! New to the Second Edition: - New chapter on Risk Assessment - New coverage of running effective team meetings - Offers real world scenarios: Each chapter opens with a real-world project problem faced by a project leader. Selected from a wide range of industries--from academia to business to health care--each situation portrays how project work applies to real project problems in a variety of settings. - Identifies key expectations of project leaders: Concrete advice is given on leading project teams across a number of important leadership issues and on how project leaders should develop and guide project team members. - Provides quick-learning project tools: Many accessible tools are provided to help readers understand the basics of project management such as the work breakdown structure and project scheduling. Extensive coverage on team literature is offered to help students learn the basics of team construction and team dynamics.

Code: Team Zebra

Code: Team Zebra
Author: Dale Greenwell
Publisher: WestBow Press
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2013-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1490713883

Code: Team Zebra is a small top secret organization funded by Congress as a fictitious research group, it is designed to subvert and destroy international drug cartels responsible for degrading American lives. One senator is aware of its existence. The story focuses on the assassination of an informant and his Zebra contact, and the death of the senator's son, which is believed to be at the hands of a cartel.

The Balloon Team

The Balloon Team
Author: Chris Powling
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2010
Genre: Readers
ISBN: 9780195569933

Team X is an outstanding addition to the Oxford Literacy series and has been developed for the whole school - for the early years through to Year 6. Team X has been extensively researched and trialled in schools to make absolutely sure that it's what kids want! Team X builds fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. Fluency and vocabulary are important skills and are both crucial stepping stones to comprehension, which for any reader may be considered the main goal of reading. Step 1: Listen to the audio bookAn adult mentor with a particular area of expertise (the eXpert) introduces themselves and relates the cluster theme to their own experience. The mentor reads all or some sections of the book. Step 2: Read the bookThe student then reads the book, either in a guided reading or independent reading situation. Step 3: Write your responses to the question on the activity cardFor all levels, there are two writing activities related to the content or theme of the book, often scaffolded, with a graphic organiser. There are also two additional activities that link to other curriculum learning areas.

Fee Fie Fo... Mum!

Fee Fie Fo... Mum!
Author: Siân Lewis
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009-01-08
Genre: Children's stories
ISBN: 9780198471882

In Divided We Fall and The Balloon Team, Max, Cat, Ant and Tiger realize that they have to work together if they want to get themselves out of some difficult scrapes. In Fee Fie Fo... MUM! quarrelling twins Sam and Samantha have to work together to play the giant in Jack and the Beanstalk.Also in this cluster, find out more about how music and bands and football in the two non fiction books, Let's Form a Band and The Beautiful Team.Each book comes with notes for parents that highlight tricky words or concepts in the books, prompt questions and suggest a range of follow-up activities. The Working as a Team Guided Reading Notes provide step-by-step guided reading support for each book in the Working as a Team cluster, togetherwith guidance about comprehension, assessment for learning and vocabulary enrichment. Hands-on follow-up activities and cross-curricular links are also provided for each book.

Micro-projects

Micro-projects
Author: Ian Stokes
Publisher: Gower Publishing Company
Total Pages: 117
Release: 2004
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780566086007

A project is more than an assembly of methods, tools and resources. Projects often seem to have a soul. They require dedication, belief and commitment. The only way to gain experience of a project, assess and develop the skills associated with it is to live through it. The six micro-projects in this collection highlight the kinds of skills typical of creative project teams. They can be used to practise: [ team working in a project environment [ working as a team to satisfy a need expressed in terms of time, cost and quality [ the skills associated with creativity, problem solving and team leadership [ the guiding principles for tackling projects creatively. The collection includes the following games: Eggbox is a creative project that emphasizes idea generation; Ironbridge simulates a scenario in which consortia explore the specifications of a construction project; Tower of Straws produces a situation in which change is frequent and normal; Domino Race is based on an imaginative design project that needs to reflect operational constraints; Catapult is an all-day task offering a complete project management experience and, finally, the Autonomous Team Activity encourages productivity and initiative in the project team.