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-Seth Godin, Founder of altMBA and author of The Practice
If you let go of hierarchy, chaos will reign...or so many leaders believe.
But when leaders find the courage to distribute rather than hoard power, creativity multiplies, trust deepens, and inclusivity expands... and a new kind of order emerges.A few rare leaders have learned to embrace a new organizational shape and mindset: Constellations. Organizations designed as constellations are dynamic and flexible networks of distinct yet interwoven individuals. Each member of the team feels like a singular star and is also connected to others to form something greater. That is how Visa reimagined how we pay for things, how Wikipedia beat the richest company in the world and how Barack Obama and his grassroots team revolutionized political campaigning. These leaders did what most leaders dread they gave away power. Barzun brilliantly layers lessons across history and industries with his own experiences as an internet entrepreneur, political organizer, and US ambassador to the United Kingdom and Sweden. The Power of Giving Away Power shows how the Constellation mindset shines in some of the most impactful organizations and innovations the world has ever known. And it encourages us all to recognize, as Barzun writes, the power we can create by seeing the power in others and making the leap to lead. Together.
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Full of compelling stories and hard-won wisdom. Inspiring.
Jon Favreau, cohost, Pod Save America
Unexpected encounters! Barzun introduces you to people and ideas you never knew but should if you really care about leadership.
Vint Cerf, internet pioneer
A remarkable book about creating order without control and freedom without chaos, from an original and counterintuitive leader and thinker.
Daniel H. Pink, author of When, Drive, and To Sell Is Human
Matthews leadership style has always been collaborative and celebratory of his teams, but in this wonderful book he shares the power of how lifting people up to lift up the entire organization.
Nicole A. Avant, TV and film producer and former US Ambassador to the Commonwealth of the Bahamas
An engaging, compelling, and welcome rebuttal to the distressingly widespread win/lose theories of leadership.
Drew Faust, Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor and President Emerita, Harvard University
Redistributing power, an anthem of our times, gets a new twist from a former US Ambassador who rejects exerting power over whomever and whatever we can. Barzun engagingly argues for abandoning hierarchy to empower constellations of diverse workers and teammates seeking the freedom to stand out and fit in.
Anita L. Allen, JD, PhD, Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania
The book is illuminating. It challenges you to take a hard look at your own leadership style... its that good.
Stacey Wade, CEO and executive creative director of Nimbus
A riveting and unforgettable journey through the wisdom of largely-forgotten visionaries with profound potential to reshape modern leadership for the better.
Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Barzun, Matthew Winthrop, 1970 author.
Title: The power of giving away power / Matthew Barzun.
Description: New York : Optimism Press, [2021] | Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020045752 (print) | LCCN 2020045753 (ebook) | ISBN 9780525541042 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780525541059 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Power (Social sciences) | Leadership. | Organizational behavior.
Classification: LCC HM1256 .B37 2021 (print) | LCC HM1256 (ebook) | DDC 303.3dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020045752
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020045753
Book design by Ellen Cipriano, adapted for ebook by Cora Wigen
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Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
Samuel Butler
The vision is clear: to build a world in which the vast majority of people wake up every single morning inspired, feel safe wherever they are, and end the day fulfilled by the work that they do. The only way to build this world is if we work together. But theres a problem....
Over the past few decades, our society has overindexed on rugged individualism. Images of the lone cowboy in a Marlboro commercial became an ideal to strive for. We emulated the big personality leaders who presented an image of the strong man, the genius in the room. As the high-performing individual became the standard, company structures transformed to feed the beast. They adapted their incentive and reward systems to recognize individual performance almost exclusively. Ethics, teamwork, and leadership qualities seemed to fall to the wayside when we evaluated people for promotion. Even our business schools became complicit. Over the years, they adapted their curricula to serve the market rather than teach leadership as it should be taught. However, if its long-term results, stability, or innovation were hoping to achieve, this model of leadership simply doesnt work. The unfortunate irony is, the opposite model doesnt work either. Consensus-building, leaderless organizations, tribal leadership, even the much touted bottom-up approach, all suffer complications in their own ways. The good news is, there is another option. This is where The Power of Giving Away Power comes in.
Matthew Barzun has spent decades figuring out where big ideas come from. Once he learned the concept of giving away power, he applied it to his own career. And it worked. Matthews ideas played a significant role in helping CNET grow into a powerhouse media platform. Challenging the traditional way money was raised for political campaigns, Matthew pioneered a small-dollar/big-event fundraising platform that helped Senator Barack Obama significantly outpace Hillary Clintons efforts with $5 and $10 donations. And as US Ambassador to the UK, Matthew practiced giving away power in a way the ambassadors just didnt do. The ideas that were generated as a result were astounding.
I had the opportunity to meet Matthew during the time he was the ambassador to Britain. I was astonished by his thinking. Whenever we would have occasion to talk, I would scramble to find a pen and paper so I could take notes on everything he said. This was why I asked Matthew to write a book for Optimism Press. The way he helps us better understand how the world workshow power workscan help move us closer to that visiona world in which we feel inspired, safe, and fulfilled in our lives and our careers.
Give power and inspire on!
Simon Sinek
Pretending is exhausting.
So its surprising how many of us get up every day and do exactly that under the banner of leadership. Pretending that we know the precise destination, what steps in what order are required to get there, and how any unexpected obstacles can be cleared away as we drive toward an inevitably successful outcome. All the while projecting supreme confidence.
Around the year 2000, organizations of all kinds, from Rhode Islands historical society to the multinational conglomerate Siemens, churned out strategic planning reports for the decades ahead called Vision 2020. The number proved an irresistible temptation to pretend we could see with perfect 20/20 vision into the future for our companies, communities, and countries. The glossy reports spelled out confidently what could be expected in 2020 and what to do to seize the coming opportunities. In 2018, with just two years to go, Harvard Business School published a guide asking Is Your Vision 2020 Leadership Development Strategy on the Path to Success? Then that year arrived with a vengeance as if to say, Oh, yeah?
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