James Scouller’s “How To Build Winning Teams” Wins Book Award

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Independent Press Award

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 17 January 2025

How To Build Winning Teams” receives international recognition through the INDEPENDENT PRESS AWARD®

​United Kingdom – The INDEPENDENT PRESS AWARD, one of the most globally prestigious book award programs for independent authors, publishers, and illustrators, recognised How To Build Winning Teams Again And Again by James Scouller as its winner in the Business General category for 2025.

​​The competition is judged by experts from different parts of the book industry, including publishers, writers, editors, book cover designers and professional copywriters. Selected IPA Award Winners are based on overall excellence.

James Scouller’s prize-winning book is the first volume in his groundbreaking How to Build Winning Teams trilogy. It’s a non-fiction “how-to” business book for people who are serious about leading great teams.

The trilogy is the first series of handbooks to explain the psychology, action principles and roadmaps behind team success.

  • Book #1 explains what you need to KNOW about teams and their psychology.
  • Book #2 outlines what you need to DO to build teams that last.
  • Book #3 explains HOW to apply Book #2’s models and tools in different scenarios.

In his award-winning first book, James Scouller exposed hidden team traps, introduced the Team Progression Curve and unveiled the three psychological challenges—Commit, Combust, Combine. You’ll discover too why so many senior executive groups struggle to become genuine teams. It goes on to explain: (1) What stops work groups in your company succeeding. (2) How teams differ from other work groups. (3) The psychological hurdles all teams face. (4) The new Team Progression Curve model. (5) The new Commit-Combust-Combine team psychology model.

For team leaders, it offers eye-opening insights to boost your team’s results and make teamwork fulfilling.

For CEOs or Chief People Officers it offers the chance to gain a competitive edge in human collaboration.

Independent Press Award Winner 2025

In 2025, the INDEPENDENT PRESS AWARD saw participation from journalists, well-established authors, and small, medium and large publishers across the globe, including those residing in Australia, Canada, Dominican Republic, France, Germany, India, Hong Kong, Japan, Portugal, Scotland, Singapore, Spain, United Kingdom, and the United States. 

Winners were chosen from publishers such as Amplify Publishing Group, Black Rose Writing, Blackstone Publishing, BookBaby, Calumet Editions, Globe Pequot, Finishing Line Press, Gatekeepers Press, Hachette Go (Blanco of Grand Central Publishing), HarperCollins Leadership, Ideapress Publishing, IVP Kids, Koehler Books, Mad Cave Studios, North Dakota State University Press, Oceanview, Publishing Old Stone Press, Pegasus Books, Post Hill Press, Red T Kid’s Media, Rowman & Littlefield, She Writes Press, University of California Press, and University of Georgia Press.

“The 2025 INDEPENDENT PRESS AWARD awardees included the excellence and diversity of global independent publishing,”  said Gabrielle Olczak, IPA President and Award Sponsor. “There is no stopping independent publishing. It provides unparalleled content and quality to consumers worldwide and we are excited to showcase this year’s honourees to the world.”

​For more information please visit independentpressaward.com; and to see this year’s list of IPA Winners and Distinguished Favourites, please visit the website pages:​

2025 WINNERS:  https://www.independentpressaward.com/2025winners

The Independent Press Award is announced every spring and is open to independent authors and publishers.