Read it for
- Team trust
- Constructive conflict
- Shared accountability
What’s inside
The book follows a new CEO working to bring a divided leadership team together. Its model links a foundation of trust to productive conflict, commitment, accountability and shared results.
Bring it to your work
Use the five levels as prompts for a team conversation. Ask where client work gets stuck, then choose one specific behaviour the group can practise before its next review.
Edition & source notes
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- Reference edition
- Hardcover reference edition
- Format
- hardcover
- Reference edition date
- 2002
- ISBN-13
- 9780787960759
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Take the idea off the page.
Which level of the pyramid would most improve your team’s work with clients if you strengthened it first?
Talk with the collective


