Why Always Wins

Stephen Gay

Jan 2020 · Inquire Why

About this ebook

Why Always Wins — A Graphic Novel for Creating Winning Teams. A fun and informative comic designed to help you understand the mechanics of collaboration to foster effective and empathetic teams. How many times have you worked on a big project where you may have gotten the results you wanted, but have little desire to work with the people on that team again? You may have felt lousy about yourself, lousy about the team, completely dispirited and exhausted. Our protagonist, Max, is a young manager who gets in over his head leading a group of colleagues with clashing styles. But a chance meeting with an unexpected mentor leads him on a journey to help him better understand himself and his team. Will Max’s odyssey give him the confidence and expertise to lead a winning team? Why Always Wins is a fun and informative 160-paged graphic novel that shares the best practices in facilitation, collaboration, and communication to help you succeed in any work environment.

Ratings and reviews

This book is absolutely a must-have for individual contributors and managers. By reading this book, you will find out how to solve conflicts with your teammates, how to deal with difficult conversations, how to build an effective team, and how to reach success as a team. Plus the comics part makes the book very fun to read! Highly recommend!!

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About the author

Stephen Gay is an award-winning designer with over 20 years of leadership experience. He has championed product development in start-ups and large-scale creative organizations like Google, Intuit, and more. Having led change in organizations that span the globe with teams on five continents, Stephen has extensive facilitation training and experience leading team-building and designing workshops, and is excited to offer you the best of what on-the-job learning and mentors have given him. 

Der-shing Helmer is a game and comic artist living in the California Bay Area. She has a formal background in science and education, and an informal one in art, and enjoys making comics whenever possible.