You're Not Playing With a Full Deck:
Why the Coworkers Who Drive You Crazy Are Your Unfair Advantage
That Person Who Drives You Nuts? They're The Ace Up Your Sleeve.
EBook Available NoW
Paperback Available April 21
Audiobook and Hardcover TBD
With the best of intentions, you hire people who fit the mold.
But here’s the problem: when everyone fits the mold, your organization grows mold. You get stale thinking. Safe ideas. No breakthroughs.
You end up playing with only half a deck.
The perspectives you avoid—the colleagues who make you cringe, the ideas that sound crazy—are the missing cards you need most. And ignoring them is costing you.
In this book, you’ll discover the four thinking styles required for true innovation and learn to:
- Turn the colleagues who drive you crazy into your competitive advantage. They unlock what you’ve been missing.
- Identify which cards are missing from your team—and why that’s costing you breakthrough results.
- Rethink culture fit. It’s blocking your growth by making you overlook the people who could change everything.
- Ensure your meetings are playing with a full deck. The right balance of meetings with the right people leading the way.
No endless assessments. No 47-page report. No corporate BS.
Just a fast read that’ll change how you see everyone you work with, especially the ones you’d rather avoid.
It's Not About Personalities...It's for Innovation, Collaboration, and Growth
In You’re Not Playing with a Full Deck, innovation expert Stephen M. Shapiro reveals that true business success requires a diverse hand. This is not just another personality test; it is an organizational diagnostic tool that identifies precisely why your team has stalled—and why innovation isn’t happening.
Using the metaphor of a deck of cards, Shapiro introduces four essential thinking styles:
- Spades (analytical)
- Diamonds (creative)
- Clubs (action-oriented)
- Hearts (people-focused)
Each suit links to a step of the innovation process. So if your team is missing even one of these suits, you won’t play to your full potential.
Based on Personality Poker, the card-based system that has been played by over 250,000 people.
Written for executives and team leaders who are tired of corporate fluff and just want results.