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.
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
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.
- 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
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