A practical guide for facilitating collaborative decisions that actually stick.
When groups make decisions together, someone always wants to run ahead to solutions before others are ready. But the best decisions happen when everyone moves through each step together, ensuring real understanding and genuine commitment at every stage.
This 35,000-word book teaches you how to facilitate group decisions using the Line Principle and Five Checkpoints framework—distilled from complex organizational theory into an accessible approach for everyday facilitators.
Target Audience: Team leads, project managers, committee chairs, volunteer coordinators, department heads—anyone who runs meetings where decisions need to work.
📖 Read the book here (GitHub Pages)
Part I: The Problem (Chapters 1-3) Why group decisions fail and what it costs you
Part II: The Framework (Chapters 4-6) The road trip convoy metaphor and the five checkpoints everyone must pass together
Part III: The Skills (Chapters 7-9) How to recognize where you are, test for alignment, and navigate the process
Part IV: The Mastery (Chapters 10-12) Who to include, how to facilitate, and what changes when groups consistently move together
This book is built with mdBook.
# Install mdBook
brew install mdbook # macOS
# or
cargo install mdbook
# Serve locally with live reload
cd book
mdbook serve --openVisit http://localhost:3000
cd book
mdbook buildOutput will be in book/book/.
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├── book/ # mdBook source
│ ├── book.toml # Configuration
│ └── src/ # Chapter markdown files
├── chapters/ # Original chapter files
├── outline.md # Book outline and structure
└── voice-profile.md # Writing style guide
This book was written using custom Claude Code skills for long-form content creation. See ghostwriting-skills-README.md for details.
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