The book

High-Impact Tools for Teams.

A step-by-step guide to building trust, alignment and psychological safety, one team at a time. Co-authored with Alex Osterwalder, foreword by Amy Edmondson.

High-Impact Tools for Teams book cover
Authors
Stefano Mastrogiacomo & Alex Osterwalder
Foreword
Amy Edmondson, Harvard Business School
Publisher
Wiley, Strategyzer series, 2021
Editions
Published in 10+ languages
This book injects new energy, and new tools, into the quest to build teams that can thrive in the 21st century. If you are leading a team, you'll want to keep it close at hand.

From the foreword by

Amy Edmondson

Harvard Business School

Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management

What you'll learn

Why teams underperform and how to fix it.

Plan any project on a single page

What it is, how to run it and the difference it makes to meetings, projects and organisational alignment.

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.

Made by
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
Publisher
Wiley, Strategyzer series
The tools are free

Try the tools before you read the book.

Every tool in the book is free to download and use with your team, in more than ten languages.

Download the tools