Leading outside the lines: How to Mobilize the (in)Formal Organization, Energize Your Team, and Get Better Results

ON MONDAY . . .

There is one best way for you to gain the maximum impact from reading this book: take something you have learned and apply it to your own role so that you do something different from what you now do. In other words, change something about yourself before trying to change something about your organization.

At the core, of course, you are who you are, and changing your essential nature is probably impossible—and anyway not really the point. But there are, no doubt, two or three new behaviors that you can adopt that will make better use of the informal organization in your role. Figure out what they are and try one of them next Monday. This next Monday—not at the beginning of the fiscal year, not after the big project is over, ...