Extraordinary Groups: How Ordinary Teams Achieve Amazing Results

Appendix C. PRACTICING WHAT WE PREACH

We two have been personal friends and professional colleagues for over twenty-five years. We share a strong Bond built upon our friendship and a mutual compelling Purpose—this book. During our three years of work on Extraordinary Groups, we sought to be extraordinary. We intended to transform ourselves, our relationship, our ideas, and our work through this co-authoring. And, we did—often in ways that surprised both of us.

As one small group of two, we worked to meet the six Group Needs we each brought to this project. We observed our behavior and discussed how it was or was not characteristic of extraordinary groups. And we noted our feelings, how and when we each felt energized, connected, hopeful, and changed ...