Bottary Leo - The power of peers: how the company you keep drives leadifership, growth & success

True peer advantage is an experience like no other. The Power of Peers shows you how to achieve it.

Marshall Goldsmith, #1 NY Times best-selling author of Triggers, MOJO, and What Got You Here Wont Get You There

There is no problem you cant solve if you have a group of peers watching your back. The Power of Peers makes a powerful case for peer groups and shows how to structure them, allowing any leader to accelerate an organizations scaling up.

Verne Harnish, founder of Entrepreneurs Organization (EO) and author of Scaling Up

Shapiro and Bottary know their stuff. Their combined experience plus the examples cited in this book make The Power of Peers a valuable walk-through into the world of what peer organizations can do to improve your leadership and success skills.

Chris Brogan, CEO of Owner Media Group and NY Times best-selling coauthor of Trust Agents

The Power of Peers gives voice to a concept that I have long witnessed to be true in businesslearning from others who have had similar or related experiences holds incredible value. Business owners are at a disadvantage if they do not have a set of people surrounding them to provide both counsel and support. From my own experience as a co-founder of a company, a journalist, and member of a peer group, I can say that peer advantage is the real deal.

JJ Ramberg, host of MSNBCs Your Business and cofounder of Goodshop

In The Power of Peers, Shapiro and Bottary interview dozens of business leaders who tell a similar story to my ownthat of seeking out a different kind of help from a group of peersand in so doing provide a reasonable roadmap to help you learn what you just dont know.

Gini Dietrich, CEO of Arment Dietrich and author of Spin Sucks

The Power of Peers provides a cogent and engaging explanation for why peer advisory groups work. So if you sit at the top of an organization or business and want to continually push your leadership and management performance to new levels, and do it in an environment that is supportive and fun, and yet hard-hitting and pragmatic, read this book.

Craig Weber, author of Conversational Capacity and recipient of the Vistage Worldwide Speaker of the Year award

Peer influence is evident in every stage of our life. Kids follow their friends and mirror their older siblings. Teenagers group together in cliques that walk, talk, and dress alike. As we mature, we grow as individuals, yet our peers remain a powerful force in our lives. Were all in this together. Whether it pertains to business or physical fitness, the more you surround yourself with peers who hold the same values and share the same goals, the more likely you are to accomplish those goals.

Jesse Campanaro, CEO of Total Gym

When I started my first business, most, if not all, decisions were mine. Ultimately, the business prospered, but if I had had a trusted peer group to share ideas with, Im certain we would have been far more successful. With ThePower of Peers, Leon Shapiro and Leo Bottary take you on a thoughtful journey that redefines the old adage of you are known (and far more successful) by the company you keep. Read this book today and take action tomorrow, or you may look back years from now with just a bit of regret.

Robert H. Thompson, author of The Offsite: A Leadership Challenge Fable, founder of LeaderInsideOut.com, and host of Robert Thompsons Thought Grenades radio

To the family members, friends, colleagues, and competitors who inspire us to be our best selves and make the world a better place.