The 17 Essential Qualities Of A Team Player: Becoming The Kind Of Person Every Team Wants

John C. Maxwell takes the pain out of knowing what makes a team tick. If you want to have a better team, you have to develop better players.

The qualities Maxwell teaches quickly take you to the heart of teamwork. Anybody can understand them and apply them--whether at home, on the job, at church, or on the ball field. If you learn the seventeen essential qualities of a team player, you can become the kind of person every team wants. If everyone on your team does it, there will be no holding you back.

I really enjoyed the little stories and the descriptions of the elements that compose the 17 qualities were very well written. The main thing I enjoyed about the book was not that it taught me a lot of things I didn't know, but that it put those things together in a more coherent picture and made me ask myself some hard questions about how I can be a better team player and whether or not I've neglected some areas.

I find I perform at a much higher level when I keep these sorts of ideas in mind as I plan my tasks. This book is small enough to travel well and profound enough to keep pushing me to higher levels.


Fantastic. Get it, read it, keep it.   September 22, 2002
Linda C. Norton (Ocean, NJ United States)
6 out of 8 found this review helpful

This is an absolutely fabulous book. It's also required reading for every member of our company -- Urangatang.Net -- a web design consortium. This book describes THE lifestyle that will lift your company, your employees, and even your family members to the highest level of success. It is scripturally sound and downright fabulous. And to it, I say "Amen!"


The 17 Essential Qualities Of A Team Player   November 6, 2006
Joseph H. Caruth Jr.
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

This book is very well written. It should be required reading in Organizational Behavior and other Management courses.


How Effective of a team player are you?   February 2, 2007
Kim (Florida)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

Oh this is a wonderful study. We are going through leadership training in our church and our homework lol is to read this book. It is very good material. My husband and I enjoy it so much we go back and reread the chapter we've done read.


Great book to use to facilitate team discussion   February 19, 2007
Thomas Goudreau (Vienna, VA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

I used the 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player as a book to use for team discussions affirming or confirming how the team would operate. The chapters are a quick read and the qualities described supporting a successful and harmonious workplace cover most required behaviors of a good team member.

While John Maxwell's material is mostly from non-profit experiences, the stories and quotes are relevant and applicable to corporate America just as much as in the non-profit settings. In some cases my team offered criticisms of the examples, but even in those cases the opportunity to have the team discuss and agree on the essential attributes of teamwork was a success I would not have achieved without the support of the book. I have not used the websites referred to in the book.