The Collaboration Book – 41 Ideas for Working Better

Mikael Krogerus and Roman Tschäppeler, Profile, £10.99

Most people would agree that collaboration is a good thing – so how can we collaborate more effectively in school settings? This slim volume manages to pack in a huge amount of ideas and information, organised in three main sections – ‘Solving problems’, ‘Achieving your goals’ and ‘Creating trust’.

I especially liked its discussion of the ‘two pizza rule’, which states that any team should be small enough to be viably fed by two pizzas; any larger, and the team’s decision-making power will almost certainly be compromised.

The book’s chief appeal stems from how it presents each core concept or idea in just a few pages, sometimes with helpfully simplified illustrations, when it could easily have taken the form of a huge academic tome.

A must for every team leader.

This book was first reviewed in Teach Secondary magazine.

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