Build a Team That Runs Itself
Stop firefighting. Start leading a team that owns its work.
For team leads who are past the basics but feel stuck doing everything themselves, or whose team lacks accountability and initiative. This path moves you from reactive manager to a leader who builds real capability in the team.
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Your reading order
8 books- 1
Start with the most important mindset shift for experienced managers: Multipliers shows you how to stop being the smartest person in the room and start drawing out the intelligence already on your team.
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Now that you think like a multiplier, First, Break All the Rules asks you to stop fixing weaknesses and build on each person's natural talents. That is the foundation of real team performance.
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With a strengths lens in place, The Coaching Habit gives you seven questions that replace advice-giving with coaching, so your team solves problems instead of waiting for you to solve them.
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Coaching works best in a culture of ownership. Extreme Ownership brings the Navy SEAL principle that accountability starts with you, and shows how to spread that mindset across your whole team.
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Accountability needs direction. The 4 Disciplines of Execution gives you the operating rhythm (wildly important goals, lead measures, and scoreboards) that keeps your team focused on what matters most.
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Add OKRs to the 4DX framework: Measure What Matters shows how Google and others use Objectives and Key Results to align team effort with the goals of the whole organization, at every level.
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With goals and accountability in place, A Team of Leaders shows you how to redesign your team's structure so every member builds leadership skills, not just the people you have formally promoted.
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The final step: Team of Teams shows how General McChrystal rebuilt the US military for complexity by replacing rigid hierarchy with shared consciousness and decentralized decision-making. It is the model for truly self-directed teams.
