Impact

Impact explores the people and culture teams need for sustained innovation and problem-solving. This transformative guide is aimed at leaders who offer subject matter expertise, impact, and innate leadership skills, but now face the challenge of building teams without prior experience. Whether leaders are starting from scratch or transforming an existing team, it serves as a design framework and blueprint for transformation. Impact guides individuals across the leadership chasm from player/coach to team builder, helping them sidestep common scaling pitfalls such as diminished impact, lower productivity, culture dilution, disempowerment, and loss of focus. It presents a two-tiered framework that examines culture as a system and leadership as a discipline. The first tier offers team-wide practices to drive focus, cultivate alignment, and unlock collective brainpower and horsepower. The second tier provides individual-centered practices to ensure the team hires, promotes, and retains those most likely to contribute to the mission. Drawing from Keith V. Lucass direct experience in building teams and advising startups, Impacts offers practical insights for effective team building and leadership.