Ignition is a practical, research-based guide to one of leadership’s most important challenges: building and sustaining a high-performing team. Author Gordon Curphy, co-author of one of America’s best-selling leadership textbooks, combines deep mastery of the leadership literature with thousands of hours of hands-on experience advising leaders and teams. The book translates this expertise into a systematic and highly actionable framework for diagnosing team problems, improving team dynamics, and turning groups of individuals into coordinated, effective units. Its methods have also formed the basis of a highly successful professional training program for building high-performing teams, giving the book an established application beyond the page.