Successfully Leading Local Government Teams is a collection of stories that describe the unique challenges facing public sector teams that their private-sector counterparts do not face. It contains stories that describe the struggles, victories, defeats, and challenges of local public-sector service organizations. The focus is on how problem people impact leaders and team members and how to handle their games. Each of the stories in this book reflects events and situations that happened. Names, places, and many contributing factors have been changed to protect the guilty and the innocent people described in these stories.