What Happens When You Are Not In The Room?: How Managers Become Leaders By Learning To Think About Leadership, Strategy & Motivation

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‘I wish I worked in a world where everyone had read this book!’ Mike Forster, Lean Technologies—----Q: What happens when you are not in the room?A: All the work gets done.Everything that is the reason for your company's existence: building products, selling products, helping customers, researching futures, making money - all these happen when you are not in the room.Success is not measured by what you do when you are in the room. Success is what happens when you are not in the room. Leadership is how you influence the people who are in the room.—-----‘This is a fantastic leadership manual, full of actionable advice and a-ha moments.’ Liz Rice, Cisco“Excellent, funny, engaging” Jon Rowland, Senior Vice President of Engineering, Alianza“A genuinely novel way to think about leadership that works at every level.” Rich Sugarman, Software Engineering Director, NVIDIA—-----What is leadership, how do you do it and get better at it?This book is designed to help you think about leadership, management and strategy in a new way. Actually in lots of new ways.—-----Why don’t people do what you tell them?Are you the bottleneck?What is the difference between leadership and management?Who is allowed to be a leader?What is the right amount of fear?Why are there so many bad managers?What is strategy and how to create it?What Happens When You Are Not In The Room? is full of easy to understand models and ideas you can deploy immediately to improve yourself and your organisation.It is for anyone who wants to get better at changing the world around them. If you like the idea of positive leadership and fostering a culture of leadership in your organisation, this book is for you.