• Build an A-Team: Play to Their Strengths and Lead Them Up the Learning Curve

  • By: Whitney Johnson
  • Narrated by: Whitney Johnson
  • Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (129 ratings)

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Build an A-Team: Play to Their Strengths and Lead Them Up the Learning Curve

By: Whitney Johnson
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The best bosses know this, and they know how to make it happen by thoughtfully designing people’s jobs around the skills they have today as well as the skills they'll need to be even more valuable tomorrow. That's how entire organizations stay competitive in an unpredictable, rapidly changing business environment. In this book, Johnson explains how to become one of those bosses and how to build your A-team.

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Just the book I needed to read

It’s basically exactly the way I have always felt about developing stash, but it’s explained in a way that makes it a useful tool to visualize when thinking about people. And that’s very helpful for me. Thank you for writing this Whitney, my staff and I appreciate it :-)

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Exceptional! A book that I will continue to revisit!

Whitney’s book is true to the title...”Building an A-Team.” Filled with meaningful examples, her book makes me view the work place from a different perspective. Thank you for your hard work bringing this book to life.

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A must read for every leader or aspiring leader

Great read. Whitney delivers a framework for leaders to build a high quality and performing team. A must read for anyone in leadership or aspiring to become a leader. 100% recommended.



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Decent one

One major theme across the book. Quite insightful. The narration was bit too fast for my liking though. And the content of the book probably isn’t too well suited to an audio book.

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Exceptional on many levels!

This is an amazing book for its coverage of both individual and team dynamics and is applicable to each and every worker and manager at any point on the spectrum of their careers.

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A must listen for team builders everywhere

I can't tell you how many times listening to this book I wanted to shout AMEN!!! How can we get this book and it's ideas into the hands of every working professional and manager in the world? I love Whitney's ideas and honesty. She is able to pull from a lot of interesting and diverse examples. I highly recommend this as a must have book for professional development.

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good listen

well done ... going to get the book for myself and some on my team.

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Some interesting points but only few

I guess this book is not going deeper enough in the HR subject.

Prefer more inspirational like No rules rules about Netflix vision of the HR.

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