‘Unleashed’: A leader’s guide to empowering others

Author Moonshot.news

Published on: 03/09/2021

Leadership is not about titles and positions and it is definitely not about leaders. It is about unleashing the full potential of a team and creating the conditions for them to thrive.

This is precisely what Frances Frei and Anne Morriss argue in their book “Unleashed: The Unapologetic Leader’s Guide to Empowering Everyone Around You”: that a true leader is focused on empowering others, not on their own power or prowess.

Leadership isn’t easy. It takes grit, courage, and vision, among other things, that can be hard to come by on your toughest days. When leaders want to improve, they will find no shortage of ideas to help them. They’re told to identify and develop their natural-born strengths, mine failures for insights into what to change, and work to correct real or perceived career-limiting deficiencies.

In Unleashed, Frei and Morriss argue that this popular leadership advice glosses over the most important thing you do as a leader: Build others up. “Leadership isn’t about you. It’s about how effective you are at empowering other people – and making sure that this impact endures even in your absence.”

Unleashed​ provides radical advice for the practice of leadership today. Showing how the boldest, most effective leaders use a special combination of trust, love, and belonging to create spaces where other people can excel, Frei and Morriss offer practical, battle-tested tools – based on their work in companies such as Uber, Riot Games, and others – along with interviews and stories from their own personal experience to make these ideas come alive.

This book is a guide for unleashing greatness in other people and, ultimately, in yourself. And it is worth your time, whether or not you are already a leader!