The book was written to encourage individuals, teams, small to medium businesses, and large organisations to focus more time, attention and energy on team performance and people management. The book identifies the 'ten components of team performance': a unified sense of direction; strategy; outputs and performance measures; targets; performance feedback; communication; training (skills/knowledge)

systems and processes; structure and job design; reward systems. While it is true that organisations are always working with these components to some extent, this is not enough. What really matters is the degree to which these components are being successfully and permanently entrenched in the work environment or culture. Success means different things to different people -- job satisfaction, job security, more money or an ideal life style. Whatever success means to you or your organisation, it can only be achieved through team performance, executed one day at a time. The secret to greater productivity is getting the basics right. For us, this means achieving the highest standards of excellence possible on all the components across all the teams in your organisation. If you are not currently at that level, there is a definite opportunity to improve performance through the better implementation of these components.