What is it: Reciprocal Value assumes a win/win approach to business where the risk, effort and burden is distributed to bring equitable advantage, competitive value, and opportunity. It considers the numbers of people associated with an activity, and prepares it's leadership for the level of commitment and attention necessary to create a positive outcome, from the present business requirements.

What's it take: Change Agile Teamwork (CAT) is a practice of managed clarity, openness, and results. The "CAT" considers the problem to be solved, the key milestones along the way, and articulates what success looks like in a way that the team and it's leadership are clear on the performance requirements necessary for success.

What bolsters it: Talent for reciprocal value creation lies in identifying performance capacity in the full team. Its leadership is versed in their roles of when to lead, when to collaborate, and how to communicate to navigate the terrain, the issues, and the noise to produce the needed results. Team members find a level of participation in being both a respectful leader of their discipline, and a collaborative member of their group. The "CAT" recognizes the value of balance and possibility recognized in the together, everyone on the team, achieving more. It is bolstered by a business need to produce a problem statement, an approach for breaking down the journey into recognizeable milestones, and a timeline for traversing it's course.

What diminishes it's good returns: Fear, assumption, and presumption undermine the good values of leadership and team work. Imagine the power of everyone bringing their personal best to produce something amazing that solves problems. Now imagine the reverse scenario, where uninspired noise diminishes that possibility, limits it's leaders, and forces it's leaders to fail to recognize their success comes from collaboration and communication. Good returns from a project are introduced when the noise of personality, opportunity, and participation are considered as well as a balance of rewards, recognition, and role clarity. Good returns require willing leaders and collaborative followers recognizing that in a team, they must balance their involvement of EACH attribute.

What kinds of questions create value: "Optimism" and "pessimism" are judgment words that suggest only one way of being, consider the possibility that there are many solutions to create value, and your teams objective is to make the right decisions at the right time, to produce the right results! Is the problem and opportunity complete? How do we know it is the right problem to solve now? What is likely to create noise while we manage the issues?