IF YOU THINK YOU ARE SPECIAL YOU'RE NOT! If you take a chain pile it up and then push it
what direction will it go? Nowhere you can predict and not very far. If you take it by the end
and pull it which way will it go? It will follow you. Leadership is not about what sets you
apart from those you lead-it's about what binds you together. It is not about controlling
others-it's about trusting others. It's not about your achievements-it's about unleashing your
team's greatness. In short leadership really isn't about you-it's about your people. Take Bob
Davids co-author of this book and successful leader of six businesses in fields as diverse as
engineering and winemaking. His achievements often came thanks to being able to refrain from
acting when others might have found intervening irresistible. By trusting his employees to be
better than him in their area of responsibility and letting them act Bob unleashed the human
greatness that no one else-including employees themselves-suspected. Yet to lead without acting
does not mean doing nothing. It means creating conditions in which things happen by themselves.
Leadership Without Ego is about a transformation of the concept of leadership in the past two
decades-a change of beliefs about how best to lead along with radically different leadership
practices. The ideas in this book have already changed the fortunes of hundreds of businesses
and the lives of tens of thousands of employees. They can do the same for your business your
people-and you.
