Organizing Genius is an essential and classic read for leaders who are building great groups and on a mission to do breakthrough work. A core characteristic of a “great group” is that the great leader makes the great group and the great group makes the great leader. They are a strange loop that create each other focused around a grand challenge. In the book Warren Bennis and Patricia Ward Biederman analyze a collection of historic examples of “great groups” from the Manhattan Project and the original Skunk Works, to Apple’s MacIntosh team and the seminal Black Mountain College. Across all of these examples they find key roles and structural approaches and abstract out core elements that are necessary to organize… genius.