Team Habits
How Small Actions Lead to Extraordinary Results
Charlie Gilkey
“DISCOVER SMALL, TEAM-BASED CHANGES THAT HAVE COMPANY-WIDE RESULTS. The teams we work in amplify our individual efforts, yet we constantly struggle to accomplish what is possible. You can see all the problems in a typical weekly meeting. No planning. Missing goals. Muddled communication. We think just bringing our personal hopes and desires will be enough. It’s not.”
I had high hopes for Team Habits, but it turned out to be a real letdown. The premise sounds promising, but what you actually get is a lot of vague advice, recycled concepts, and filler content. There’s nothing new or groundbreaking here. Most of it reads like generic business blog posts strung together into a book.
The author touches on a ton of topics, but never dives deeply into any of them. The writing is full of abstract ideas with very little substance. The so-called “takeaways” at the end of each chapter are just painfully obvious stuff like “communicate clearly” and “encourage collaboration.” Great advice… if you’ve never worked with other people before.
It’s incredibly dry. There are no real stories, no case studies, and barely any examples to make the content engaging. I found myself skimming through entire sections, hoping it would eventually get better. It didn’t. Also worth noting: the book seems primarily aimed at project teams in tech or agile environments. If that’s not your world, it’s even less useful.
Overall: Team Habits might be helpful for someone completely new to team management, but if you’ve read even a couple of leadership books before, you’ve already seen everything this one has to offer. Skip it. 2 stars.
