CHAPTER 1Engaged Team Performance at a Glance

If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

IT’S IMPORTANT TO use the right tool for the job. This chapter will describe the key concepts of Engaged Team Performance (ETP), but we’ll start by admitting that this tool set may not be for everybody. If you’re a professional golfer, you may need to spend your valuable time reading other books instead of this one.

While a bit trite, the saying about the hammer and the nail is right on: sometimes people try to fit every problem into one tool set, and that doesn’t always work out so well. Luckily, ETP is not just a hammer. It’s a full set of performance improvement tools, shamelessly borrowed from the best thinking of the last 200 years, with ...

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