Big Trouble in Little China Team

Author: Tan Xiaoshan
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: Practical content, lively writing style, easy reading, recommended by many professionals. The secrets to building high-performing teams. This book reinterprets the characters from Journey to the West with a brisk and dynamic tone, blending ancient and modern, reality and fantasy. It vividly portrays the entire process of Tang Sanzang and his disciples enduring a month of extreme challenges, overcoming 49 difficulties, and forging a high-performing, invincible, and synergistic team. It serves as a leisure read for anyone concerned with team performance. The four disciples of Tang Sanzang are akin to four types of corporate employees with distinct personalities, backgrounds, and values.
Type 1: Distinguished achievements, ambitious, yet arrogant, always seeking power or starting their own ventures.
Type 2: Excellent potential, high-achievement-oriented, but underappreciated by leadership, leading to underutilization and frustration. They often lament, "Talent is abundant, but mentors are rare," and are typically rebellious.
Type 3: Capable, enthusiastic, and easygoing, yet lazy, preferring to "sit and ring the bell" without proactivity or initiative.
Type 4: Honest, upright, and loyal, but haunted by past failures, acting cautiously and rigidly, avoiding innovation and progress.
Clearly, each is an elite individual, yet each carries undeniable flaws and shortcomings—distinctive "problematic youth." How can this group be transformed into a rock-solid, trustworthy, and formidable high-performing team that rivals fear and cannot match?