IF YOU THINK YOU ARE SPECIAL, YOU'RE NOT!

If you take a chain, pile it up and then push it, what direction will it go? Nowhere you can predict and not very far. If you take it by the end and pull it, which way will it go? It will follow you.

Leadership is not about what sets you apart from those you lead-it's about what binds you together. It is not about controlling others-it's about trusting others. It's not about your achievements-it's about unleashing your team's greatness.

In short, leadership really isn't about you-it's about your people.

Take Bob Davids, co-author of this book and successful leader of six businesses in fields as diverse as engineering and winemaking. His achievements often came thanks to being able to refrain from acting when others might have found intervening irresistible. By trusting his employees to be better than him in their area of responsibility and letting them act, Bob unleashed the human greatness that no one else-including employees themselves-suspected.

Yet to lead without acting does not mean doing nothing. It means creating conditions in which things happen by themselves.

Leadership Without Ego is about a transformation of the concept of leadership in the past two decades-a change of beliefs about how best to lead, along with radically different leadership practices. The ideas in this book have already changed the fortunes of hundreds of businesses and the lives of tens of thousands of employees. They can do the same for your business, your people-and you.

Autorentext

Bob Davids** **started his first business at the age of 12. At 20, he entered the highly prestigious Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. Bob has headed six successful companies and is now building a high-end resort in Indonesia. In ten years he built Radica Games from nothing to the third most profitable toy maker globally. Starting with land that was horse pasture, Bob built Sea Smoke Cellars into America's best new winery (Food & Wine) in just five years.

Brian M. Carney is Senior Vice President for Corporate Communications of Rivada Networks, an American wireless-technology start up. Brian was a member of The Wall Street Journal's editorial board from 2004-2014 and editor of The Wall Street Journal Europe's editorial page from 2004-2005 (in Brussels) and 2009-2014 (in London). He received the Gerald R. Loeb award for Commentary in 2009 for his coverage of the financial crisis.

Isaac Getz is Professor at the top-ranked ESCP Europe Business School*. *He was also Visiting Professor at Cornell and Stanford Universities. Isaac has studied over 300 companies in 30 countries and published research on diverse topics related to innovation, leadership, and freedom and responsibility culture. He co-authored with Brian Carney the award-winning international best-seller Freedom, Inc. translated into a dozen languages.

Zusammenfassung

If you take a chain, pile it up and then push it, what direction will it go? Nowhere you can predict and not very far. If you take it by the end and pull it, which way will it go? It will follow you.

Leadership is not about what sets you apart from those you leadit's about what binds you together. It is not about controlling othersit's about trusting others. It's not about your achievementsit's about unleashing your team's greatness.

In short, leadership really isn't about youit's about your people.   Take Bob Davids, co-author of this book and successful leader of six businesses in fields as diverse as engineering and winemaking. His achievements often came thanks to being able to refrain from acting when others might have found intervening irresistible. By trusting his employees to be better than him in their area of responsibility and letting them act, Bob unleashed the human greatness that no one elseincluding employees themselvessuspected.

Yet to lead without acting does not mean doing nothing. It means creating conditions in which things happen by themselves.

Leadership Without Ego is about a transformation of the concept of leadership in the past two decades: a change of beliefs about how best to lead, along with radically different leadership practices. The ideas in this book have already changed the fortunes of hundreds of businesses and the lives of tens of thousands of employees. They can do the same for your business, your peopleand you.

Inhalt

Arrows.- Beach Vs Seminars.- Better.- Bosses Vs Leaders.- Bullshit.- Caltech Tools.- Cars, Etc..- Coffee.- Common Sense.- Communication.- Communication, As Glue.- Control, Cream.- Culture & Trust.- Culture Of Responsibility.- Decisions, Stealing Them.- Difference.- Discipline.- Dogs.- Down, Lie.- Dual Standards, Or No-One Is Special.- Eagles.- Ego, Generals' And Presidents.- Equality.- Excuses.- Evil.- Exit To Start.- Fun Killers.- Generalities.- Getting Out Vs Getting In.- Growing, From Within.- Hands, Ripping It From Yours.- Holding Back, Not To.- Honesty, The First Step To Being A Leader.- Hourglass.- Idiots, The Virtues Of.- Idiots, Making Them.- Ingredients & Inventory.- Ink, Free.- Inspirations Vs Perspiration.- The Instant They Leave.- Intellectualizing By Floating.- Job Interviews.- Karma.- Keeping The Culture.- Kicking A Baby Bird.- Kicking, In The Rear Vs In The Front.- Lateness, Chronic.- Learning From My Mistakes.- Lesson, Father's.- Limits To Thinking... In Handcuffs.- Listening And Creativity.- Listening And Ideation.- Loop  Closing.- Love Vs Respect.- Low Sights.- Lunatic.- Lying.- Making A Person Better.- Marketing Your Creativity.- Mbwa Is Better Than Mba.- Meetings, Knocking The Edge Off Them.- Mistakes.- Morale Soup.- Motivating, The Impossibility Of.- Motivational Diapers.- Motivational Diplomat.- A Natural.- Negotiating Up.- A Negotiation Technique - Fishing Vs Working.- Negotiation, Two Tools Of.- Nine Men And A Baby.- Number 2.- Officer, Chief Entertainment.- One Percent Exception, Getting Emotional.- Open Book.- Overplanning.- Outstiders.- Pay, Don't Screw It Up.- Paying Attention.- Paying For (Self-)Improvement.- Performance Reviews.- Personnel Chances.- Privilege.- Product Development Tube.- Question, Asking The Right One.- Quitting.- Quitting, Part Ii.- Reaching The Pinnacle.- Readers Of Bullshit.- Real Job Of The Ceo.- Real Life.- Reporting, By The Ceo.- Responsibility, With Authority.- The Right Quality.- Risk.- Running To Your Enemies - Cu Stick.- Saturday Off.- The Secret Of Becoming A Ceo.- The Senses, Influencing Them.- Sharing Gains.- Sharing Vision.- Shoeboxes.- Shotgun Innovation.- Size & Fun.- Size.- The Smallest Component.- Spilt Milk Syndrome, Double Bind.- Spread Of Information.- Starting  A Business.- Stifling Gm.- Stink.- Success And Fun.- Suits.- Supplier - A Better Dog.- Sustaining Growth.- The S-Word.- The Tank Factor.- Tap-Dancing Whores.- Theory X.- Things We Cannot Do.- Time Horizon.- Time To Get Away.- Tired Giants.- Together, In The Garden.- Ton Of Money.- Top Guy.- Trademarks, Not Patents.- Trick Question.- T.C..- Trouble Time.- Trouble With The Ceo.- Trout.- Trust And Contracts.- Ultimate Power.- Uncontrollable Directors.- Unions.- Universal People.- Visionary Vs Accountant Ceos. Visionary Vs Enterpreneur.- Utopia Doesn't Last.- Video, Joies De (Life, Pleasures Of).- Wives And Dual Ladders.- Winemaking Isn't A Hobby.- Wings.- Winning, What It Means.- Worries Hang On Your Key Ring.- Wrong Hands.- X-It Strategy.****