The Possibility Question

In a classroom in Lagos, one question on the whiteboard changed how a class of sixteen-year-olds worked: "What would have to be true?"

Years later, Jordan asked two hundred managers how they kept their teams trying through a flat year. The ones who managed it were asking the same question, in their own words. This book is what they did, chapter by chapter: the meeting after a missed quarter, the target nobody believes, the team that has stopped volunteering ideas.

Each chapter ends with a page to use with a team on Monday morning. It is the long version of the keynote, and the reason organisers often give a copy to every seat.