Building Great Teams

In our fast-paced world, there seems to be an endless mantra of doing more with less. If you want to live a more enthusiastic life, being able to come up with creative solutions to problems is an essential skill. Creativity is a skill you can cultivate—discover techniques to spark new ideas, take action, and embrace a more creative mindset.

This book reveals how to generate creative ideas on command and how to implement those ideas in the real world. Learn to think outside the box and bring more passion, innovation, and bold ideas into your personal and professional life.

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1. About the Author
2. Team Structure
   1. Different Types of Team Structures
   2. What about Services?
   3. The Optimal Size
   4. Frequent Interaction
   5. Centered on Skills
   6. Stable and Persistent
   7. Organized Around Products
   8. Chapter Review
   9. Your Next Move
3. Team Practices
   1. Visualizing Work
   2. Pull Based
   3. Work in Progress
   4. Reducing the Cost of Delay
   5. Outcomes over Outputs
   6. Work Cadence
   7. Enabling Tools
   8. Working Agreements
   9. Work Intake
   10. Chapter Review
   11. Your Next Move
4. Team Behaviors
   1. Trust
   2. Radical Candor
   3. Psychological Safety
   4. Team Commitments and Accountability
   5. Chapter Review
   6. Your Next Move
5. Common Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them
   1. Work Not Releasable
   2. Too Many Dependencies
   3. Team Members Not Fully Engaged
   4. Teams Not Delivering What They Commit to
   5. Priorities Continually Shifting
6. Conclusion
7. List of References