Publisher Description
Leaders today want to stop feeling overwhelmed and alone. They want to build engaged, diverse, resilient, and joyful teams that achieve greater things together. They want a better way to lead.
Lead Together is a fictional story, grounded in psychology and laden with practical tools, that offers leaders a power-with rather than power-over paradigm. It explores how leaders can develop power jointly rather than use it as a top-down means of control in the form of an engaging, squirrelly narrative.
Psychology researcher and leadership educator Tania Luna offers the tale of Sam Squirrel, branch manager of Nuts for You, Inc., whose company faces an impending forest recession. Sam employs the leadership tactics his boss, Jack Walnuts, taught him ("know the way and make them go your way") but achieves only distrust, disengagement, poor performance, and high turnover. During Sam's last-ditch effort to meet his quotas, he finds a hidden, thriving community that shows him a radical new way to lead. But will it be enough to save Nuts for You and help Sam realize his dream of becoming Chief Nut Officer?
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About Tania Luna
Tania
Luna
leads the culture department at LifeLabs New York, a company that helps people,
teams, and organizations master life’s most useful skills (from how to ask
better questions to how to think more strategically). She is also the cofounder
of Surprise Industries, the world’s only company specializing in surprise.
Tania writes for Psychology Today and
conducts research on surprise.
LeeAnn
Renninger, PhD, is the CEO and founder of LifeLabs New
York. She received her PhD in social psychology from the University of Vienna,
where she studied the differences between good and great communicators. At
LifeLabs New York she helps managers around the globe catalyze better (and more
surprising) thinking in themselves and others.
Tania and LeeAnn have spoken at a wide range of
corporate events and to TED, TEDx, Yahoo Ignite, and YPO audiences. The authors
provide training, organizational consulting, and team building for some of the
world’s most inspiring organizations, including Etsy, Whole Foods Market,
Google, National Geographic, LinkedIn, Victoria’s Secret, Warby Parker,
Squarespace, Columbia University, and Yale University. Both authors live, work,
and play in New York.