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.

Arrows

Beach Vs Seminars
Better
Bosses Vs Leaders
Bullshit
Caltech Tools
Cars, Etc.
Coffee
Common Sense
Communication
Communication, As Glue
Control, Cream
Culture & Trust
Culture Of Responsibility
Decisions, Stealing Them
Difference
Discipline
Dogs
Down, Lie
Dual Standards, Or No-One Is Special
Eagles
Ego, Generals' And Presidents
Equality
Excuses
Evil
Exit To Start
Fun Killers
Generalities
Getting Out Vs Getting In
Growing, From Within
Hands, Ripping It From Yours
Holding Back, Not To
Honesty, The First Step To Being A Leader
Hourglass
Idiots, The Virtues Of
Idiots, Making Them
Ingredients & Inventory
Ink, Free
Inspirations Vs Perspiration
The Instant They Leave
Intellectualizing By Floating
Job Interviews
Karma
Keeping The Culture
Kicking A Baby Bird
Kicking, In The Rear Vs In The Front
Lateness, Chronic
Learning From My Mistakes
Lesson, Father's
Limits To Thinking... In Handcuffs.-Listening And Creativity
Listening And Ideation
Loop  Closing
Love Vs Respect
Low Sights
Lunatic
Lying
Making A Person Better
Marketing Your Creativity
Mbwa Is Better Than Mba
Meetings, Knocking The Edge Off Them
Mistakes
Morale Soup
Motivating, The Impossibility Of
Motivational Diapers
Motivational Diplomat
A Natural
Negotiating Up
A Negotiation Technique - Fishing Vs Working
Negotiation, Two Tools Of
Nine Men And A Baby
Number 2
Officer, Chief Entertainment
One Percent Exception, Getting Emotional
Open Book
Overplanning
Outstiders
Pay, Don't Screw It Up
Paying Attention
Paying For (Self-)Improvement
Performance Reviews
Personnel Chances
Privilege
Product Development Tube
Question, Asking The Right One
Quitting
Quitting, Part Ii
Reaching The Pinnacle
Readers Of Bullshit
Real Job Of The Ceo
Real Life
Reporting, By The Ceo
Responsibility, With Authority
The Right Quality
Risk
Running To Your Enemies - Cu Stick
Saturday Off
The Secret Of Becoming A Ceo
The Senses, Influencing Them
Sharing Gains
Sharing Vision
Shoeboxes
Shotgun Innovation
Size & Fun
Size
The Smallest Component
Spilt Milk Syndrome, Double Bind
Spread Of Information
Starting  A Business
Stifling Gm
Stink
Success And Fun
Suits
Supplier - A Better Dog
Sustaining Growth
The S-Word
The Tank Factor
Tap-Dancing Whores
Theory X
Things We Cannot Do
Time Horizon
Time To Get Away
Tired Giants
Together, In The Garden
Ton Of Money
Top Guy
Trademarks, Not Patents
Trick Question
T.C.
Trouble Time
Trouble With The Ceo
Trout
Trust And Contracts
Ultimate Power
Uncontrollable Directors
Unions
Universal People
Visionary Vs Accountant Ceos. Visionary Vs Enterpreneur
Utopia Doesn't Last
Video, Joies De (Life, Pleasures Of)
Wives And Dual Ladders
Winemaking Isn't A Hobby
Wings
Winning, What It Means
Worries Hang On Your Key Ring.-Wrong Hands
X-It Strategy.