Keith Yamashita, Coauthor of Unstuck: A Tool for Yourself, Your Team, and Your World (Portfolio/Penguin, 2004)

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There are a variety of reasons why groups and organizations become stuck, say Keith Yamashita, chairman and founder of the San Francisco-based consulting firm SYPartners, and Sandra Spataro, assistant professor of management and organizations at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management. In Unstuck: A Tool for Yourself, Your Team, and Your World, they argue that making the right diagnosis requires viewing a group’s purpose, strategy, people, processes, metrics, and culture as an interconnected whole.