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Rich Dad's Advisors®: The ABC's of Building a Business Team That Wins: The Invisible Code of Honor That Takes Ordinary People and Turns Them Into a Championship Team
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Sales rank 52,212
Customers rating (based on 7 reviews)
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Great champions in sports, business and even families have one thing in common. It's a legitimate secret weapon. It is something that lies deep in the genetic code of winning organizations. It appears when pressure is high, when the stakes are critical and when everything is on the line. They know how to work as a team. Blair Singer's The ABC's of Building a Business Team That Wins offers a set of simple, powerful rules that govern the internal behaviours of any business, organization, family or individual. They are rules like 'Never abandon a teammate in need', 'Be personally responsible for all mistakes' and 'Be on time'. This book will step you through the process so that you can create championship results any time, any place.
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| Publisher | Business Plus | | Release date | 09/2004 | | Availability | Usually ships in 24 hours | | Edition | Paperback |
| | List price | $16.95 | | Our price | $11.53 (you save 31.98%) | | Used price | from $2.83 |
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 A core book to read if you are creating a team or a business
As a business coach and an entrepreneur for the last 10 years I found this book to be extremely helpful for myself and my clients. The core message of the book is to get your code of honor out of your head and on to paper for everyone to see and to buy into. A true professional leaves nothing to chance they believe in design! Every company has a personality so do you want your company's personality to be by design or default? A code of honor will help the design. Great organizations do not happen by accident.
I have seen many teams get in trouble because "un-communicated expectations are disappointments waiting to happen." What a code of honor does for an organization is it allows for the expected way of being to be communicated so people know what is expected of them. As we learned from the movie The Bad News Bears do not ASSUME. Everyone has a preconceived idea of what it means to be a team player. What is the probability that with out guidance everyone will have the same idea?
Its a powerful tool for leaders to embed the culture. Another great point of having a code is that if forces you as the leader to remember what you are committed to. It creates a check.
 Since Everyone is on a Team - Read this book
I read this book initially with a focus on Business Team Building. I found it it simple and straightforward. I learned about creating a code of honor for myself first, and then for my family and business. It also helped me look at what I can do to improve me, create my own code and commit to the follow through and believe the results will follow.
Simple strategies - hard work to implement - abundant rewards for the people involved in the process.
I read a bunch of the negative reviews for this book and felt for my small invesment of time and money the book was worth 10 x's what I invested.
If you are a coach, parent, or in a business this will give you a new view on team builing for long term success.
 I don't recommend this book
I am a big fan of Robert Kiyosaky, but I didn't like this book at all, what is a pitty, since I liked the other book by Blair Singer, Salesdogs. I expected much more from it. The author had only one idea -- "create a code of honor for your team" and wrote a book around it. Honestly, I don't think this book has anything to add. I suggest reading The Servant, by James C. Hunter instead. This one is a really awesome book about leadership.
Well written--but doesn't quite hit the nail on the head.
This is a very good book on the subject of finding the type of people to work for you. What it fails to do is to point out the specialty people required to get a business running and growing. That is what I expected, after reading the title. One thing that totally put me off as I read this book. The author spoke of owning a shipping business and having a time pressure to get a shipment loaded. All of the laborers pulled together as a team, working long hours and extra shifts without complaining or asking for overtime pay. Who made the lions share of the money? Not the ones who did the hard labor, but he as the owner. Compensation was something not mentioned in this book. I very much like the concept of a 'code of honor', in which this book was almost completely based. I am still not really sure, after reading this book, what the difference between a code of honor and a mission statement is. A couple of great books that also cover this concept very well are: On My Honor I Will, and The Lost Secret of Phenomenol Success. This kind of book makes you think about your values, and what you want from life. I recommend it. Just remember, it may not be what you expect.
DON'T BUY THIS BOOK!!
I am an entrepreneur and wanted some inspiration, sadly I just found a lot of crap in this book. There's nothing I can apply, anyone can come up with a book better than this. just by reading the index you know this book was written by someone who has no idea about business. I'll write it for you:
chap.1 why do you need a code of honor?
2 who you sorround yourself with will determine your wealth and success
3 creating your code of honor
4 what's your personal code
5 how to enforce the code to ensure championship play
6 leadership that teaches other
7 the biggest impact of the code
8 ensuring account. loyalty and trust
9 standing in the heat with the code
conclusion it's your time to have a code
the book is full of phrases like: (please ask yourself if you need to buy a book to learn this:)
"nature whats you to go for it" pg 122
"when in doubt support each other" pg 115
"accountability is in the stats, no stats no results" pg 108
"the code is an awesome recruiting tool and qualifier"
"steps for creating a code: 1 create a code in a sane environment"
"sample code: 1 never abandon a teammate in need"
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