THE BOOK

FULL CONTACT PERFORMANCE: The Internal Art of Organizational Collaboration

By Grayson James

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Most of us believe that good collaboration depends upon how cooperative our colleagues are. That’s a costly mistake, says Grayson James, international 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 really happens when organizational collaboration goes well, and what to do when it doesn’t.

James shows that we ourselves are always where the real action is whenever we’re trying to get things done with other people. This is great news, because it means we each have the power to transform our collaborative performance — regardless of our circumstances, no matter who we’re working with.

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Endorsements
As I read Grayson James’s Full Contact Performance, I was struck by the clarity and elegance of his insights, coupled with his down-to-earth understandings about what it really takes to collaborate well in today’s organization. And it isn’t what you might think.
Dr. Marshall GoldsmithThinkers50 #1 Executive Coach and NYT Bestselling Author of The Earned Life, Triggers, and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There.
Full Contact Performance is the field guide for the new frontier of team and leadership development. Grayson James offers a tried and trustworthy foundation for authentic human collaboration that leads to skillful action and creative interactions. Weaving together the disciplines of language-action, the principles of Aikido, mediation, and meditation, James demonstrates not only how to do but also how to be in the 21st century workplace.
Dr. Richard Strozzi-HecklerAuthor of The Leadership Dojo and The Art of Somatic Coaching
This book is a gift to organizations, showing their employees how to achieve win-win-win solutions by being their better selves, having better interpersonal collaborators and still helping the bottom line. James is a deep thinker with a sophisticated understanding of human nature. A masterpiece!
Russell LemleFormer Chief Psychologist, San Francisco VA Health Care System
The unique approach that James outlines in Full Contact Performance pays incredibly high dividends. I’ve had the opportunity to apply this approach in many challenging organizational transformations involving strong cultural, political and international differences and it has consistently produced high-performing teams that deliver seemingly impossible results.
Lucy NorrisEVP, Chief Customer Success Officer, Synamedia
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