Never Lead Alone: 10 Shifts from Leadership to Teamship

(Hardback)

Publishing Details

Classifications

Physical Properties

Description

In this timeless guide on maximizing teams to achieve outstanding business success, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Whos Got Your Back, and Never Eat Alone distills his years of experience coaching teams at Fortune 500 companies and startup unicorns to optimize team performance.

The worlds best teams dont win because of leadership alone. They win because of teamship. Yet when it comes to success, it is leaders who are lauded; too little attentionis given to the transformation of the team itself.

Weve all but ignored how to extract billions of dollars of shareholder value from the interdependency of talent in teams, Keith Ferrazzi argues. Upgrading teams is one of the least curated and under-leveraged opportunities for success. It is time to focus on teamship.

But first we must reinvent our understanding of what teamship is and how it functions in a work world that is significantly more volatile, networked, hybrid, diverse, and inclusive than even a decade ago. New thinking about the false and debilitative assumptions that drive teams to underperform is overdue. We need to capture the bold spirit of co-creation and human ingenuity that drives teams like Astro Tellers Google X to strive for and sustain innovation.

In Never Lead Alone, Ferrazzi shares the approach that drives his coaching practicethe playbook he has used to reboot team performance at major brands, including Mastercard, Intel, Starbucks, and General Motors, along with fast-growth unicorns like MongoDB, and Scopley and governments like Bhutan and NGOs like the World Bank.

Drawing on more than two decades of deep study with colleagues from the Ferrazzi Greenlight Research Institute, he identifies ten key shifts to unlock the potential of any team, accompanied with 20 High Return Practices that quickly turn each shift into a new team habit. Using the tools that have successfully rebooted team performance at Fortune 500 companies and unicorn brands, Never Lead Alone can help any organization experience innovation and exponential growth.

Reviews

So simple yet so powerful. Ferrazzi has written another practical masterpiece, this time on the art and science of teamship. Never Lead Alone is a great roadmap for building a winning team. Patti Poppe, CEO, PG&E Ferrazzis shift from leadership to teamship is a game-changer. Never Lead Alone provides a clear and powerful guide on how to create a culture of innovation and shared success. Tshering Tobgay, prime minister, Kingdom of Bhutan Focusing on Teamship behaviors within our organization has enabled faster and broader collaboration for real breakthrough results. Never Lead Alone is a beacon for teams seeking transformative outcomes in a rapidly evolving world. Callie Field, president, Business Group, T-Mobile Never Lead Alone offers a masterful blueprint for cultivating high-performance teams that are greater than the sum of their parts. Ferrazzis pragmatic approach seamlessly blends visionary insights with actionable strategies, empowering leaders to unlock immediate results. Bill McDermott, chairman and CEO, ServiceNow This book is a gift to teammates everywhere. Ferrazzis accessible strategies for fostering teamship are massively refreshing for teams at all levels and forge a path to better collaboration in any institution. Steve Collis, chairman, president, and CEO, Cencora Never Lead Alone challenges teammates to rethink their assumptions about what they can expect from each other and what they can achieve together. Dylan Jadeja, CEO, Riot Games

Author Bio

Keith Ferrazzi is an entrepreneur and global thought leader in high performing teamsand Chairman of Ferrazzi Greenlight and its Research Institute. He is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Whos Got Your Back and bestsellers like Never Eat Alone, Leading Without Authority, and Competing in the New World of Work. He is a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review, the Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Forbes, Inc, Fortune, and other publications. Ferrazzis twenty-year history of transforming C-Suite executive teams has made him an agent of transformation among the worlds greatest and most sought-after coaches.