Collective Confidence Reader's Guide

When he was eleven, André Martin played on a scrappy, mismatched youth soccer team that pulled off a win no one expected. He has spent his career since then trying to answer the question that game left him with: How did we do that? As Chief Talent Officer at Google, Nike, Mars, and Target, he watched teams with every advantage fall short while teams with modest resources did remarkable things. What set them apart was collective confidence, a team’s shared and reality-tested belief that together they can achieve something great. In Collective Confidence, Martin draws on submarine crews, gymnastics teams, hospitals, and startups to show how any leader can build that belief through six learnable principles.

This companion reader’s guide to Collective Confidence includes chapter summaries, “Try This” prompts, and chapter-by-chapter discussion questions. Use it with your book club or your own team, or to deepen your understanding of the material.