John C. Maxwell. The 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player. Part 1. By Rene Nava. How to Become the Person Every Group Wants. This book and all of this author's books are very instructive and masterfully explain his ideas in simple language. He also has the unique ability to illustrate the concept through historical and contemporary leaders. 1. Adaptable. If you don't change for the team, the team might change you. 2. Collaborator. Working together precedes succeeding together. 3. Committed. There are no indifferent champions. 4. Communicative. A team is many voices with one heart. 5. Competent. If you can't your team. Nor will he be able to. 6. Reliable. Teams value players they can trust. 7. Disciplined. Where there's a will, there's a winner. 8. Value others. Recognizing the merits of teammates is invaluable. 9. Enthusiastic. The source of energy for your team is your heart. 1. Intentional. Make every action count. 11. Aware of ITS mission. The big picture is presented strong and clear. 12. Prepared. Preparation can make the difference between winning and losing. 13. Value relationships. If you get along well with others, people will follow you. 14. Practice personal improvement. To improve the team, improve yourself. 15 Selfless. There is no I in a team. 16 Solution oriented. That it's resolution. To find the solution. 17 Tenacious. Never never never give up. You can't make a great team without great players. This is a fact. As the saying goes, it's possible to lose with good players, but you can't win without them. So how can you get good players? Or, how can you become a better player? When it comes to having good people on a team, there are only two options train them or buy them. You either make champions out of the players you have, or you recruit people with a champion's mindset. This book can help you with both. Building a better team always starts with you. To improve the team, improve the people who make it up. You will become a better player if you adopt the qualities presented in the following pages. My recommendation is that you read this book at a leisurely pace. Read a chapter, digest it, use the something to do section as a guide to help you better grasp each quality. If you want to evaluate a particular quality, visit www.qualitiesophmplayer.com. By adopting this process, you can become the kind of person every team wants. When you improve, you add value to your team. But if you already have a leadership role on your team, it's especially vital. Why? Because you can only effectively teach what you consistently model. It takes one person to know another, to teach another, and to develop another. Once you model the behavior you expect from your teammates, start using. The 17 qualities of a team player serves as a coaching manual. You can use it to help your players become better team contributors, regardless of their talent level. And if you're looking to recruit new players, use the book as a guide to find the kind of players who will put the team first. You can be confident that anyone who exhibits all 17 qualities will be a true team player. The abilities God gives us may be beyond our control, but not the capacity to work as part of a team. Everyone can choose to become a better team player. All it takes is adopting the qualities of a team player. Do it, help your teammates do the same, and the whole team will improve. Adaptable. If you don't change for the team, the team could change it for you. Inflexibility is one of the worst human flaws. You can learn to control your impulsiveness, to overcome fear with confidence, and laziness with discipline. But there is no antidote to rigidity of mind. It carries within it the seeds of its own destruction. Anonymous. Blessed are the flexible, for they will not break when they are bent. Michael McGriff. A bebop mind. His friends call him Q. He's a legend in the entertainment industry. He's worked with the best in the business, starting in the era of improvisational and complexly harmonized jazz known in the United States as the Bob Era or Bebop Era. With artists such as Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Lionel Hampton, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Ray Charles, Miles Davis, and many others. He produced the best-selling single of all time. We Are the World. He produced the best-selling album of all time, Michael Jackson's Thriller. He's been nominated for more Grammy Awards than anyone else, and to date, has won a total of 27. I'm talking about Quincy Jones. Quincy Jones was born in 1933 in Chicago and spent his first 10 years in one of the toughest neighborhoods in the city. Jones says he and his brother got into a lot of trouble back then. Later, his family moved to Bremerton, Washington. Soon after, Jones discovered his love for music. At the age of 11, he decided he wanted to play an instrument. He started with percussion. Even then, he showed signs of a quality that would mark him as a professional. His adaptability. He would stay after school practicing with a variety of other instruments. He tried the clarinet and the violin, but ultimately settled on the brass instruments. So he tried all the instruments in the brass family baritone, French horn, saxophone, and trombone. Finally, he settled on the trumpet and he excelled at it. At the age of 14, he had his first paid job as a musician. As a teenager, he met Ray Charles, beginning a friendship with him. Ray Charles is a little older than him. Jones started composing music and learning how to arrange it, and when the best orchestras and singers came to Seattle, he would go to listen to them play or play with them. At 18, he went on tour with Lionel Hampton. Jones has always displayed a great hunger for learning, what he calls an obsessive curiosity, and an admirable capacity for adaptation. Over the years, he has moved effortlessly from musician to arranger to orchestra conductor. In the 1950s, he worked with several of the greatest jazz performers. In 1957, feeling it was time to further his education, he traveled to Paris and studied under Nadia Boulanger, whose students included Aaron Copeland and Leonard Bernstein. Around that time, Jones began working with Mercury Records to support himself. There he learned the business side of the music industry. He did so well that in 1964 the company appointed him one of its vice presidents. He was the first African American to hold an executive position at a major record company. Also in the 1960s, he decided to take on a new challenge writing film scores. Since then, he has written music for more than 30 films and numerous television programs. Throughout his career, Jones has worked with the world's finest singers and musicians. Because he spent so much time in the jazz community when he worked with Michael Jackson in 1982, some of his colleagues accused him of selling out. Jones thought this was ridiculous and commented. When I was 12 or 13 years old, we played everything band music, rhythm, and blues. We played pop music, Scottish music, similar to Polka's. And Sousa, we played in all the clubs in town black clubs, white clubs, and tennis clubs, so I've always had a wide variety of styles to choose from. Working with Michael Jackson or Frank Sinatra has never been a problem. Bebop was something I was very involved in musically, and it affects your way of thinking. It takes away the rigidity and helps you always keep an open mind. Jazz musical style.