Full Contact Performance: The Internal Art of Organizational Collaboration

‘This book is a gift to organizations, showing their employees how to reach win-win-win solutions by being their better selves, being better collaborators and still helping the base line. James is a deep thinker with a sophisticated understanding of human nature. A masterpiece!’ Russell Lemle, Former Chief Psychologist, San Francisco VA Health Care System

Most of us imagine that good collaboration depends upon how cooperative our colleagues are. That’s a costly mistake, says Grayson James, international collaborative performance consultant, leadership coach, and 6th degree black belt in Aikido. Integrating understandings from organizational leadership, psychology, language action theory, martial arts, and other mind-body disciplines, James gives us an eye-opening view of what in reality happens when organizational collaboration goes well, and what to do when it doesn’t. Through personal insights and stories, this book brings to life the five principles and the three key conversations that enable us to make Full Contact with our colleagues. And the simple practices provided lend a hand us recognize the action inherent in every word we speak, the role our body plays, and how our attention determines the success of our collaborative performance. James shows that we ourselves are at all times where the real action is whenever we’re trying to get things done with other people. This is great news, because it means we every have the power to turn out to be our collaborative performance, without reference to our circumstances, no matter who we’re working with.