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Endnotes: The TEAM Gene

 

1. Michael Jordan commenting to reporters on why he fed his teammates so many times during the Bulls' 38-point trouncing of the Orlando Magic in Game One of the 1996 NBA Eastern Conference. See Bryan Burwell, "Jordan's Redemption Road Begins as Role Player," USA Today, 21 May 1996.

 

2. M. Mitchell Waldrop, Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992), 241.

 

3. Waldrop, Complexity, 241-42.

 

4. Morris A. Graham and Melvin J. LeBaron, The Horizontal Revolution: Reengineering Your Organization Through Teams (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1994).

 

5. Jon R. Katzenbach and Douglas K. Smith, The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1993), 45.

 

6. For the various kinds of teams possible, see Susan Albers Mohrman, Susan G. Cohen, Allan M. Mohrman, Jr., Designing Team-Based Organizations: New Forms for Knowledge Work (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1995), 40-41.

 

7. See Leonard I. Sweet and K. Elizabeth Rennie, " ," Homiletics, .

 

8. Jessica Lipnack and Jeffrey Stamps, The Age of the Network: Organizing Principles for the 21st Century (Essex Junction, Vt.: Omneo, 1994), 213.

 

9. Autograph letter of John Wesley to Samuel Walker, 3 September 1756, Maser Wesleyana Collection, Drew University Library, as published in The Letters of the Rev. John Wesley, ed. John Telford. (London: Epworth Press, 1931) 3:195.

 

10. The phrase "collaborative individualism" is that of David Limerick and Bert Cunnington. See their Managing the New Organization: A Blueprint for Networks and Strategic Alliances (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993). 35-36, 112-58.

 

11. See Andrew J. DuBrin, The Breakthrough Team Player: Becoming the M.V.P. on Your Workplace Team (New York: AMACOM, 1995).

 

12. Thomas Coke, Entry for Sunday, 14 November 1784, Extracts of the Journal of the Rev. Coke's Five Visits to America (London: G. Paramore, 1793), 16.

 

13. Penelope Farmer, Two or the Book of Twins and Doubles (New York: Virago, 1996),97.

 

14. Sara Maitland, A Big-Enough God: A Feminist's Search for a Joyful Theology (New York: H. Holt, 1995) 5.

 

15. See for example Michael Goulder, St. Paul Versus St. Peter: A Tale of Two Missions (Louisville, Ky.: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1995).

 

16. Henry D. Rack, Reasonable Enthusiast: John Wesley and the Rise of Methodism (London: Epworth Press, 1989; 2d ed., Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1993).

 

17. Doris Elisabett Andrews, "Popular Religion and the Revolution in the Middle Atlantic Ports: The Rise of the Methodists, 1770-1800" (Ph.D. diss., University of Pennsylvania, 1986), 171.

 

18. Paul Otis Evans, "The Ideology of Inequality: Asbury, Methodism, and Slavery" (Ph.D. diss., Rutgers University, 1981), 231.

 

19. Randy J. Sparks, On Jordan's Stormy Banks: Evangelicalism in Mississippi, 1773-1876 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1994), 203.

 

20. Parker J. Palmer, "Community, Conflict, and Ways of Knowing," Change Magazine 19 (September/October 1987), 20.

 

21. See Harvey Robbins and Michael Finley, Why Teams Don't Work: What Went Wrong and How to Make It Right (Princeton, NJ: Peterson's/Pacesetter Books, 1995).

 

22. As quoted in Hans J. Eysenck, Genius: The Natural History of Creativity (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995), 1.

 

23. See for example Eysenck, Genius.

 

24. David Joseph Weeks and Jamie James, Eccentrics: A Study of Sanity and Strangeness (New York: Villard, 1995), 16.

 

25. Nicholas Negroponte, "Where Do New Ideas Come From?" Wired, January 1996, 204.

 

26. Ronald A. Heifetz, Leadership Without Easy Answers (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1994), 271.

 

27. For the fuller story of the National Performance Review, see Lipnack and Stamps, The Age of the Network, 129-30.

 

28. Ross Webber, chair of the management department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, as quoted in Brian O'Reilly, "What's Killing the Business School Deans of America?" Fortune, 8 August 1994, 65.

 

29. The Association of United Methodist Schools, Agenda 21: United Methodist Ministry for a New Century [s.l.: s.n., 1995), 28.

 

 


 
     
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