Game of Teams: Discover How to Become a Collaborative Leader (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780979572425)

Written as a business parable, Game of Teams is an award-winning book that introduces an innovative yet coherent 'operating platform' using soccer's strategic lessons to develop collaborative leaders and teams, preparing them to face rapid changes in markets and companies that Artificial Intelligence is quickly transforming. Here, it's essential to train leaders and teams to react with the synchronization and speed of a professional soccer team, where offensive and defensive resources are shared across the entire team to tackle challenges and deliver results. In today's workplace where teams continue to grow yet struggle to effectively collaborate to produce results, collaborative leadership is critical to success. Without it, teams fail!

As the story unfolds, we follow the learning and development journey of a newly promoted team manager, Jim Hernandez. He is confronted with the need to develop a nonperforming team. To succeed he must develop a collaborative mind-set and skill set - all in real time, as in soccer. With the help of an external coach, Toni Burns, he embarks on a journey that challenges his commitment and confidence to become a collaborative leader..

His journey is a never-ending challenge, requiring his personal commitment to learning and development. Although it may not take him places where no one has gone before, it will be a journey on a road less traveled. His commitment to coaching is the key to his success.

Part business parable and part handbook, Game of Teams reveals why team leaders (and teams) often fail to effectively collaborate. Winsor offers a powerful framework for overcoming these shortfalls, enabling team leaders (and teams) to succeed.

Game of Teams was revised and updated in December 2024. It won Silver Medals in 2025 from Axiom Business Book Awards in the category of Best Stories/Parables and North American Book Awards in the category of Management/Leadership..