Book Byte #142 "Leading Without Authority" by Keith Ferrazzi

How the New Power of Co-Elevation Can Break Down Silos, Transform Teams, and Reinvent Collaboration

📣 Curious Quotes from the Author

“Uncertainty is where new value is created. Everything you want in life is on the other side of all your excuses for not trying.”

“We are committed to the mission and to each other’s success: We will not let each other fail. In fact, we will ensure each other succeeds. We will elevate each other as we work together to achieve”

“Our shared mission. Collaboration: We will collaborate, not sell each other on our ideas or bleed into consensus. We will be insatiably curious while breaking through to new levels of innovation. We will respectfully challenge the other’s ideas and provide the candid feedback on the mission to attain better outcomes. Development: We commit to helping each other develop our skill sets and/or behaviors so our performance improves. We give each other permission to trust our instincts and to give the candid feedback the other person needs to hear so we can grow. Speak truth: We will speak the truth in service of the mission and each other. We give each other permission to trust our instincts and give feedback and candor when needed. We will see and receive such candor in service of each other because we care about each other’s success. No victims: Nothing will stand in the way of our transformation. We will divorce ourselves from”

“The momentum of the past and will not accept any victim language. We will check each other if someone slips into a victim mindset and speaks like a victim. Look to ourselves first: When feeling frustrated with the other person, we will look to change our own behavior first, asking, “What’s my part?” before finger-pointing and blaming others. Spend the time to serve and care about the person: We commit to serving and sharing with each other to deepen our relationship and building the psychological safety, so the other person knows we genuinely care about them. Celebrate: We will celebrate and praise each other’s performance and our wins.”

📚 Cognition of the Book’s Big Idea:

Real leadership is not about telling others what to do. It's all about collaboration and shared interests. With this in mind, you do not need to be a manager to begin driving change. Once you've identified the members of your larger team, you may begin to develop trusted connections with them. These ties can then be used to boost your influence within your firm and help you achieve your objectives. Lean into talented coworkers.

Leading people outside of your team might be beneficial at times. Perhaps there is someone in your business with whom you have little connection but who always appears to have excellent insights and ideas whenever you meet. Consider creating a chance to get to know this individual better, such as building a project on which the two of you can collaborate. Building stronger ties with the most dynamic people in your workplace will allow you to expand your influence and leadership to a larger portion of your organization.

🛠️Fixing the Tech Industry

A lot of people become Managers without ever managing anyone before. It’s safe to assume that most managers need to be comfortable with people enough to their job well enough. But everyone has always had a Manager they know deep down in there soul that they shouldn’t be in a Managerial Position. They are horrible at it, and they reek of incompetence.

We need more leaders to step up and phase out this riff raff. But the only way we can get rid of those bad managers is replacing them with good ones.

🤝Collaborate with others with this Social Media Prompt:

What kind of Manager can you be if you put your mind all into it?

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