488: Leadership Means You Go First, with Keith Ferrazzi

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Management, Careers, Business

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Keith Ferrazzi: Leading Without Authority

Keith Ferrazzi is the founder and CEO of Ferrazzi Greenlight, a management consulting and team coaching company that works with many of the world’s biggest corporations. A graduate of Harvard Business School, Keith rose to become the youngest CMO of a Fortune 500 company during his career at Deloitte, and later became CMO of Starwood Hotels.

Keith is a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and Fortune and the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Who’s Got Your Back* and Never Eat Alone*. He’s the author of the new book, Leading Without Authority: How the New Power of Co-Elevation Can Break Down Silos, Transform Teams, and Reinvent Collaboration*.

In this conversation, Keith and I discuss the importance of co-elevation in leadership. We also explore the six deadly sins that leaders should avoid — and discuss why it’s all on you, especially at the start.

Key Points

Six deadly excuses leaders should avoid:

Ignorance: there’s no excuse to sit back and do nothing.
Laziness: do not abdicate your responsibility to lead.
Deference: beware hiding the truth just to defer to the organizational chart.
Playing the victim: avoid running away or resigning to self-pity.
Cowardice: if someone scares you, it’s probably an opportunity to grow.
Indulgence: stop indulging resentments as they often hold back your career and limit personal and professional success.

Resentment leaves us blind and powerless; it’s been compared to drinking poison and hoping the other person will die.

Book Notes

Download my highlights from Leading Without Authority in PDF format (free membership required).

Related Episodes

The Choice for Compassion, with Edith Eger (episode 336)
How to Motivate Leaders, with John Maxwell (episode 452)
How to Create Great Relationships, with Colleen Bordeaux (episode 455)

Discover More

Activate your free membership for full access to the entire library of interviews since 2011, searchable by topic.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	If you want to lead, you go first.
0:03.0	Today Keith Ferazzi shows us how and why to take the first step.
0:07.0	This is coaching for leaders, episode 488.
0:11.0	Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential.
0:17.0	Greetings to you from Orange County, California.
0:23.0	This is coaching for leaders, and I'm your host, Dave Stahoviac.
0:27.0	Leaders aren't born, they're made,
0:30.0	and this weekly show helps you discover leadership wisdom
0:33.0	through insightful conversations.
0:35.5	Today a conversation with someone whose work I've been following
0:38.6	for a long time and really has made the invitation
0:41.5	for us to influence without authority and that means that we
0:45.3	need to go first as leaders. I'm so glad to welcome to the show today Keith Ferazzi. Keith is the
0:51.5	founder and CEO of Ferazzzzi Greenlight, a management consulting
0:55.3	and team coaching company that works with many of the world's biggest corporations.
1:00.2	A graduate of Harvard Business School, Keith Rose to become the youngest
1:03.6	CMO of a Fortune 500 company during his career at Deloitte, and later became
1:08.7	CMO of Starwood Hotels. He's a frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, Forbes and Fortune, and the New York Times best-selling author of Who's Got Your Back and Never Eat Alone.
1:20.0	He's the author of the new book, Leading Without Authority, how the new power of co-elevation can break down silos, transform teams, and reinvent collaboration.
1:31.0	Keith, so glad to welcome you to coaching for leaders.
1:33.0	Oh, Dave, thanks a lot. I'm looking forward to this conversation.
1:35.0	I think it's been what, about 20 years since Never Eat Alone came out and I read it and it's a book that has stuck with me all these years.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Dave Stachowiak, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Dave Stachowiak and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.