:: Hot Teams Review ::

Dear Mr. John Evan-Jones

Your book "Coach Yourself to Success" was recommended to me by our accountant. He is a trusted and respected person in our company. In your words I would probably call him my coach. I kind of hit the wall lately – but now to the point. I found your book very inspiring and it "caught" me instantly. It seems to speak directly to the reader (me in this case). I have been reading a lot about Zen Buddhism – but it seems so far away. Your thoughts and ideas are much more understandable and applicable for me. Your book is a great tool. I think every person with some kind of responsibility will understand your book. Not only in business but in their personal lives too.

That Freddie guy – I know him only too well!! Right on the spot.

Thank you.

Kind regards,
Janus Kleemann

Dear JEJ

Your coaching book is an amazing read! To the point – but also funny and with great sensitivity. Good examples – and your emotions and your experiences are really being tested along the way. The only minus is that it is a quick read – I wanted more of the same stuff immediately.

Katrine (also called the Sheriff)

Hot Teams Review

Review of Hot Teams:
Be in the hot team – by Rolf Jensen, Dream Company AS.
Jyllandsposten 24.08.05

The book is written for busy, lazy people – so it says on the back of the book. Agreed, it’s 104 pages long. It describes, what to do, and puts the long Why? aside.
It’s quick. It’s smart. It takes a couple of hours to read. Hot teams is the third book in a series of 12 in the “Master of Success series”- it can be read as a stand-alone book or as part of the sequence. Your reviewer has not read the others.
There are “groups”, a gathering of people, without a united purpose. There are “mobs”, with a united negative purpose. There are teams: individuals with a united positive purpose. Finally there are “Hot Teams”. They have a united positive purpose and they are fired up about it.
   The book tells you how you create a Hot Team like that in your company.
You do that, among others things, by putting together people with different qualities: The theorist, the executor, the analyzer, the manager and the strategist. Then there are directions on how to solve conflicts in a Hot Team.

Watch out for Freddie
The book promotes the idea of starting any sort of project in “the back room”, where you can discuss without Freddie being present. Who is Freddie? He is the guy, that constantly objects and always can explain why it is not possible. It´s a good idea to give a name to this negative energy. We all have a Freddie within us.
   John Evan-Jones has a background in the entertainment business, with connections to the Beatles, who is presented as an example of a Hot Team – when they were at their best – before they turned into a cold team. Now the author is a management psychologist and a coach advising on how to create Hot Teams.
   There are long, academic books, telling us what to do in order to achieve success. And then there are the short ones – straight to the point. It has a price. You do not get the whole background – the long “why?”.
   Furthermore you do not get the many cases and reservations. The good thing about the short version is, that we are not all prepared to – or have the time to – absorb. Many just want some good tips and tricks on what to do.

A fast read
Cut out the lecturing, I’m running a business. I read at night, when the kids are in bed, there is no time for the heavy stuff. These are the needs this book fulfills. But you get something to think about, something to use in your job.
    It is a good thing to focus on teams. That is the most common way to organise companies today. If you can make a team of fire-souls working well together, well then you are on the right track. They are not as common, as one could hope for.
   A quick book, spend an evening on it, there are most certainly a couple of things you can use the next day.
And on top of it all – it has an appealing price.

“Hot Teams” by John Evan-Jones,
104 pages, Schultz publishing.

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