High-Impact Tools for Teams
Practical tools to help your team agree on the work and build the trust to do it.
Written with Alex Osterwalder, co-founder and CEO of Strategyzer, with a foreword by Amy Edmondson, Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School.
- Authors
- Stefano Mastrogiacomo & Alex Osterwalder
- Foreword
- Amy Edmondson, Harvard Business School
- Publisher
- Wiley, Strategyzer series, 2021
- Editions
- Published in 10+ languages
One book in 10+ languages
Six of the editions: English, French, German, Dutch, Japanese and Chinese.
English · Wiley 
French · Pearson 
German · Campus 
Dutch · Boom 
Japanese · Shoeisha 
Chinese · China Machine Press
From the foreword
“If you are leading a team – or plan to anytime soon – you'll want to keep this book close at hand. […] Stefano and Alex demystify the quest for a healthy team culture – and walk us through how to create it.”
Why teams underperform and how to fix it.
Plan any project on a single page
How to use the Team Alignment Map to agree on the work before a project begins.
Build a team safe enough to do hard things
How to build a high-trust climate with tools grounded in research, so teams can do hard things together.
Five tools that work as one system
The Team Alignment Map, Team Contract, Fact Finder, Nonviolent Requests Guide and Respect Card and how they fit together.
The research that makes the tools work
The research behind the tools, from Herbert Clark's common ground (the shared understanding a team needs to act as one) to the face-work behind hard conversations.
Credits: lead author Stefano Mastrogiacomo, co-author Alex Osterwalder, creative lead Alan Smith, design lead Trish Papadakos, designer Chris White, illustration Séverine Assous and Bernard Granger (Blexbolex), editor Richard Narramore, Wiley, Strategyzer series.
Put the book to work.
The book explains when and how to use each tool. Download the templates to put what you read into practice with your team. Available in English, French, German, Italian and Dutch.
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