1034: Simple Shifts that Form Exceptional Teams with Keith Ferrazzi

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

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🗓️ 20 February 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Keith Ferrazzi shares the simple but powerful shifts all teams can make to elevate performance.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) What’s holding most teams back

2) How to improve collaboration with fewer meetings

3) The practices that turn team members into co-leaders

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— ABOUT KEITH —

Keith Ferrazzi is an entrepreneur and global thought leader in high-performing teams and Chairman of Ferrazzi Greenlight and its Research Institute. He is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Who’s 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 many other publications.

• Book: Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time

• Book: Never Lead Alone: 10 Shifts from Leadership to Teamship

• Article: “Culture change isn’t about flowery rhetoric—it can be turned into a simple assignment”

• LinkedIn: Keith Ferrazzi

• Website: KeithFerrazzi.com

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• Book: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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0:00.0	You need to configure your team around the people you need to get the job done,
0:13.0	independent of work chart. And once that's done, then you get that group to adopt what I call
0:17.5	the social contract. We're going to be candid with each other. We're going to push each other hard.
0:21.7	We're going to keep each other's energy strong.
0:23.9	We're going to build strong trusting relationships.
0:26.0	We agree on this stuff and then you do the practices.
0:29.0	So just redefining team is such a critical component of high-performing teams and teamship.
0:41.0	That's Keith Farrazzi.
0:42.5	He's an acclaimed speaker,
0:43.5	coach, and thought leader on networking and relationships.
0:46.4	He's authored numerous bestselling books,
0:48.2	and today we're going to hear some wisdom from his latest
0:50.4	called Never Lead Alone,
0:52.4	10 shifts from leadership to team ship. So you'll learn, one,
0:56.3	what's holding most teams back, two, how to improve collaboration with fewer meetings, and three,
1:01.8	the practices that turn team members into co-leaders. And if you want a quick summary write-up of
1:06.8	these takeaways, I recommend you sign up for the free Gold Nugget email newsletter at
1:10.1	awesome at your job.com. I'm Pete McItis. This is How to Be Awesome at Your Job. And now, here's Keith.
1:21.4	Keith, welcome back. Pete, I'm excited about the call. And I love the name. That's my father's
1:25.8	name. So anytime I get a chance to talk to
1:28.5	a Peter, a Peter, or a Pietro, it's always a brings a smile to my face. A Pietro, a Pietro Ferazzi.
1:35.4	Yes, I verro. All right. Oh, we already got some life, some energy in this. That's good. Well,
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