The Code to Collaboration: How to Collect and Combine to Create the Future You Were Designed to Live

5 Star Review

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Editorial Book Review:

By Anette Engel

Most business books tell you to work harder, think bigger, or find your why. Chad T. Jenkins opens The Code to Collaboration by essentially saying: you've been solving the wrong problem. That's a gutsy place to start, and it earns your attention immediately.

Reading this book feels less like absorbing a framework and more like having a conversation with someone who has genuinely lived what he's preaching. Jenkins built over fifty companies not by outmuscling competitors but by spotting what others refused to see: that friction isn't a problem to eliminate, it's a signal pointing toward opportunity. There's something almost quietly radical about that idea, and the book lets it breathe rather than overselling it. You find yourself nodding and then pausing, realizing the concept reaches well beyond business into how you approach most things in your life.

The themes here are deceptively broad. On the surface it's about entrepreneurship and growth strategy. Underneath, it's really about trust, intentionality, and what it means to build something that outlasts your individual effort. Jenkins makes a compelling case that collaboration isn't a soft skill tacked onto ambition; it's the actual engine of it. His VCR Formula and IC³ Method give readers concrete tools without making the book feel like a manual. The structure serves the ideas rather than constraining them, which is harder to pull off than it sounds.

Jenkins writes the way he apparently thinks: direct, curious, and a little restless. He doesn't linger too long in any one place, which keeps the energy up but occasionally makes you wish he'd slowed down on certain ideas a bit more. Still, that pacing reflects something honest about him as a thinker.

What stays with you after finishing this book isn't a specific tactic. It's a shift in how you see the people around you: less as competition and more as unactivated collaborators. That's not a small thing to walk away with.

About The Author

Chad T. Jenkins

As a lifelong entrepreneur driven by natural curiosity and an ability to see unconventional opportunities in conventional businesses, Chad has a deep-seated passion for understanding how businesses work, then recasting them for a much higher return. 

This zeal allows him to immediately understand and identify invisible opportunities in “the way we have always done it”. 

Chad has harnessed his unique ability that has driven the success of so many organizations and created three foundational methods that provide a framework for others to follow–Remove the FILM (TM), Just Add A Zero (TM) and 100X Collaborations (TM). When coupled with his natural curiosity, these methods become the game-changer needed to drive businesses toward exponential enterprise value growth.

This talent, what some call his highest value role, has opened the doors for Chad to work directly with leaders of businesses of every size across every industry. By analyzing every aspect of an organization's Opportunities, Dangers and Strengths, Chad can quickly identify invisible opportunities that enable companies to create competitive advantages and increase margins, resulting in exponential enterprise value growth. Not only does he enable businesses and teams to reach their full potential, he also inspires leaders to reach their own. The result is a proven track record of over forty owned or previously owned high-growth companies and 100’s of Growth Partnerships across North America.

Now focused on helping others, he has passed on leadership in each of his companies and operates solely in his unique ability through Growth Collaboration Partnerships and the SeedSpark Growth Academy. 

Chad’s advice to business leaders is to stay curious and look for the friction in their own business to remove competition, name their price and go global through collaboration. And, if you need a little help Removing the Film, or Just Adding a Zero, feel free to reach out to discuss 100X Collaborations.