You're Not Playing with a Full Deck: Why the Coworkers Who Drive You Crazy Are Your Unfair Advantage

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S M Shapiro (Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York)

You're Not Playing with a Full Deck

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Why the Coworkers Who Drive You Crazy Are Your Unfair Advantage

S M Shapiro (Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York)

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Fast Innovation Press
13 April 2026

Management & management techniques; Personnel & human resources management

That Person Who Drives You Nuts? They're The Ace Up Your Sleeve.

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. Build what AI can't replace. When every digital tool becomes a commodity, how your people think together is your organization's only real differentiator.

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.

By: S M Shapiro (Brookhaven National Laboratory New York)
Imprint: Fast Innovation Press
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 9mm
Weight: 209g
ISBN: 9798999774422
Pages: 174
Publication Date: 13 April 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Stephen Shapiro started his innovation work 30 years ago while founding and leading a 20,000-person innovation practice at the consulting firm Accenture. Since then, he has written eight books on innovation, including ""Best Practices Are Stupid,"" named the best innovation and creativity book of the year by 800-CEO-READ (now Porchlight) and was an international #1 business best seller. His most recent books are ""Invisible Solutions: 25 Lenses that Reframe and Help Solve Difficult Business Problems,"" ""PIVOTAL: Creating Stability in an Uncertain World,"" and ""You're Not Playing with a Full Deck: Why the Coworkers Who Drive You Crazy Are Your Unfair Advantage."" His Personality Poker(R) card game has been used by 250,000 individuals around the world to create high-performing innovation teams. Stephen has presented at conferences in over 50 countries and in 2015, he was inducted into the Speaker Hall of Fame. His clients include Marriott, 3M, Delta Airlines, P&G, Nike, Capital One, Honda, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, and NASA. His work has been featured in Newsweek, Entrepreneur Magazine, SUCCESS Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, CNBC, USA Network, TLC, and ABC News. He is a Senior Research Fellow with The Conference Board.