Book Byte #28 "Leadership is Half the Story" by Marc and Samantha Hurwitz
A Fresh Look at Followership, Leadership, and Collaboration
📣 Curious Quotes from the Author:
“Now think about a time when you had your best ever team experience. It could have been with a single partner, a work team, in a band, playing a sport, or just playing. As a group you lost track of time, you were immersed in the group experience. creative juices bubbled up as great idea after great idea bounced from person to person. The team was exceptionally productive, problems turned into solutions, and working together was effortless. You probably didn’t want it to end. The Beatles had it often. Top teams in sports do, too. We call this heightened group state co-flow.”
”In workplaces today we face a near-constant state of building and rebuilding relationships. Interpersonal change can be triggered by a new job, a new boss, a new owner, or a new team. If you think about your own work over the last year, how many new people have you worked with?”
”When our tribe is gets stripped away - the loss of a trusted leader, a dedicated team, a supportive colleague, or a good friend - we lost our support network.”
📚 Cognition of the Book’s Big Idea:
This book is about Followership. It’s a phrase meant for what a team should do, just as a leader should lead. It’s important for Leader’s to let other take the reigns sometimes. Delegating their trust to their “followers” will the team to solve the problems they encounter.
🛠️Fixing the Tech Industry
A lot of the time, especially in the Tech Sector, you have people who want to progress in their Career but do not want to be managers. They despise the hiring and firing process and would rather not have to report to executives about numbers and other bureaucratic issues.
You’ll see companies recognize this and create new positions that are Senior and free of such admin responsibilities. They obviously won’t be paid as much as their managers, but understanding that your career is a living thing and you can mold it a lot more than you think you can is important to the health of your career.
🤝 Collaborate with others with this Social Media Prompt:
What can you do first to be a better leader in your industry? The what can you do to be a better Follower and Employee?
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