Leading Without Authority: How Every One of Us Can Build Trust, Create Candor, Energize Our Teams, and Make a Difference

Simply having a title and authority isn't enough to engage and motivate today's employees, says bestelling author and CEO consultant Keith Ferrazzi. They have to want to follow your lead. You have to earn it. On the other hand, there are countless leaders in the ranks of our companies, Ferrazzi says, who may not have a title, but whose experience and insights and counsel are essential for a team and an organization to reach its full potential. In Leading Without Authority, Ferrazzi shows us the secret to getting those around you to collaborate and cooperate to reach their full potential, whatever your title. The answer involves a shift in mindset that Ferrazzi calls co-elevation-working to elevate those around us. And you don't have to have formal authority, or direct reports, to utilize the co-elevation process. In fact, you can take initial steps forward without the other person even being aware of your efforts. Based on two decades of working with CEOs, senior leadership, and drawing on emerging research in organizational and behavioral psychology, Ferrazzi reveals, through stories and examples, how to assume the mantle of leadership, whatever your title, to build trust, create candor, and drive transparency and purpose. By helping others to be better at what they do, we help ourselves, advance our careers, and improve our teams. Leading Without Authority promises to be the book on leadership-whether you have a title or not-by strengthening relationships and cooperation, both in our professional and personal lives.

About the Author :
-Keith Ferrazzi is the founder and CEO of Ferrazzi Greenlight, a management training and consulting company that works with many of the world's biggest corporations. A graduate of Harvard Business School, Ferrazzi rose to become the youngest CMO of a Fortune 500 company during his career at Deloitte, and later became CMO of Starwood Hotels. His book Never Eat Alone has become a classic on the power of relationships in business and in life.

Review :
“Leading Without Authority is the must-read guidebook for radical transformation. Keith Ferrazzi’s concept of co-elevation provides an actionable methodology for any team to thrive during the decade of exponential change ahead.”—Peter H. Diamandis, founder of XPRIZE and Singularity University, bestselling co-author of Abundance, Bold, and The Future Is Faster Than You Think “Ferrazzi is breaking new ground in defining what leadership can mean in the emerging world of work. He shows that humility, curiosity, and candor can serve as the connective tissue binding us to our mission, to one another, and to a sense of purpose larger than ourselves.”—Arianna Huffington, founder and CEO of Thrive Global “I’m excited to bring ‘co-elevation’ (as a new word, as a new book, and as a concept) to Zappos to help bring our culture and our business to the next level.”—Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos, New York Times bestselling author of Delivering Happiness “Ferrazzi brilliantly shows how building mutually beneficial partnerships marks the future of all work, and demonstrates how anyone can lead if they’re willing to make themselves vulnerable and put the project mission and their partners first, turf and hierarchy last.”—Kristin Yetto, chief people officer at eBay “A brilliant, unique approach to building relationship capital by creating trusting and lasting human connection, not merely digital contact—inside and outside your company.”—Peter Guber, co-owner of the Golden State Warriors, Los Angeles Dodgers, and Los Angeles FC “A masterful guide to thriving in today’s very weird workplace . . . Get this right, and it doesn’t matter that the business world is roiled by change and disruption.”—Dave Asprey, founder of Bulletproof, New York Times bestselling author of The Bulletproof Diet “Ferrazzi has gone into the trenches to figure out what it really takes to empower people and make teams more than the sum of their parts. This book will be a staple in every leader’s library.”—Adam Grant, host of the TED podcast WorkLife, New York Times bestselling author of Give and Take and Originals