Lead Together: Stop Squirrelling Away Power and Build a Better Team
- 4h 47m 24s
- Tania Luna
- Gildan Media
- 2023
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?
About the Author
TANIA LUNA is a psychology researcher, writer, and educator. She has built multiple companies, including LifeLabs Learning, a leadership development resource that serves thousands of the world’s most influential companies, and Scarlet Spark, a nonprofit that accelerates the speed-to-mission of organizations that help animals. She is also a TED speaker, co-author of The Leader Lab: How to Become a Great Manager, Faster and Surprise: Embrace the Unpredictable & Engineer the Unexpected, and co-host of the podcast "Talk Psych to Me." She lives with rescued pigs, goats, roosters, dogs, cats, and the love of her life.
In this Audiobook
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Introduction
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Chapter 1 - An Almost Definitely Great Leader
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Chapter 2 - The Condo Development
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Chapter 3 - Amara and the Pups
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Chapter 4 - Mr. Walnuts
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Chapter 5 - Know the Way
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Chapter 6 - Make Them Go Your Way
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Chapter 7 - Lost in the Darkness
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Chapter 8 - Mary Parker Forest
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Chapter 9 - A Whole New Squorld
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Chapter 10 - The Tour Begins
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Chapter 11 - Defining Power
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Chapter 12 - Too Little Power
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Chapter 13 - Too Much Power
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Chapter 14 - Formal and Informal Power
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Chapter 15 - Power-Over and Power-With
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Chapter 16 - The Business District
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Chapter 17 - Bad Medicine: Robin’s Story
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Chapter 18 - Principle #1: Follow a Purpose, Not a Person
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Chapter 19 - Ash Trees: Ricardo’s Story
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Chapter 20 - Principle #2: Rely on Context, Not Control
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Chapter 21 - Making Magic: Adam’s Story
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Chapter 22 - Principle #3: Be a Cultivator, Not a Collector
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Chapter 23 - The Founder
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Chapter 24 - Getting Help
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Chapter 25 - Mutual Flourishing: Mary’s Story
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Chapter 26 - Principle #4: Build a Community, Not a Crowd
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Chapter 27 - Coming Home
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Chapter 28 - Back at the Office
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Chapter 29 - Resistance
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Chapter 30 - The Messy Middle
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Chapter 31 - High Tails
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Chapter 32 - A Job Offer
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Chapter 33 - The Acorn
