Neverboss: Great Leadership by Letting Go

by Kevin Crenshaw, Laura Shanae Crenshaw (Editor)

The rapid blueprint for empowering leadership in any organization. Neverboss shows you how to transform top-down management into hands-free cultures of leadership, empowerment, and initiative at all levels.The change happens fast—without chaos, fear, or firing—and without dismantling or disempowering your hierarchy. Build teams that don't need to be told what to do. End micromanagement. Change your company culture forever.Neverboss is based on actual turnarounds and liberated organizations worldwide. These tried-and-true methods have been used successfully in dozens of industries to build cultures of empowerment and excellence. Complete with actions, scorecards, charts, and examples, Neverboss removes the guesswork and makes great leadership contagious.The Neverboss story is a fast-paced, easy-to-read novel with relatable real-life stories. Each chapter ends with concrete actions you can take now, regardless of your role. At each step, you'll feel immediate results that inspire you and your teams to move to the next level.Adapted From the Executive ’ve all heard great stories of empowering leadership—extraordinary bosses who trusted their people and stepped back, with impressive results. But it’s been hard to repeat their success. Every story was unique. Each path forward was uncertain, complicated, or chaotic. If we want to change leadership for good, we need a simple pattern that works for everyone.Neverboss solves that problem. More than a leadership tale, it’s a step-by-step blueprint for powerful cultures of freedom and excellence. It’s based on actual events, successful turnarounds, and the common traits of liberated companies worldwide.Each chapter of Neverboss builds on those before it. Each demonstrates a new action or tool that stops the pain of typical management. Relief is almost immediate, so you’ll feel confident and excited to move to the next level. The full transformation happens fast, and it sticks. The Neverboss story unfolds over twelve weeks, but you can do it faster or slower.Neverboss introduces new leadership concepts like the Leadership Steps—a clear progression from hands-on to hands-free as fast as people can handle it. Neverboss also fuses and simplifies best practices of renowned thought leaders like Lencioni, Covey, Marquet, Heath, and Pink. The result is powerful, yet it's comfortable and easy to implement.Neverboss points to original sources as appropriate where you can learn more. The Neverboss approach is neither traditional management, nor Holacracy, nor anarchy. It is firm leadership that shares and multiplies its power. It stays clearly in charge yet never dominates. It shares authority but never abdicates. It doesn’t replace managers—it sets them on a new mission to create more leaders. With safe boundaries for everyone, bosses stop bossing and workers take ownership and initiative. The result is greatness.In the end, your company or team feels new, refreshing, liberated. People love their jobs. They take initiative instead of waiting to be told. Information and innovation flow freely without distracting anyone. Best of all, your people think and act like leaders at all levels—unleashing cultures of leadership and excellence around them wherever they are planted.

338 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 5, 2017

Reviews

[Tomáš · Rating 5 out of 5]

Knížka o (ne)vedení lidí pro začátečníky. Líbila se mi jednoduchá forma příběhu proměny jednoho šéfa na nešéfa. Samozřejmě by se našli věci, o kterých by se dalo diskutovat anebo se snažit z nich vykřesat nějaký pseudo důvod, proč nějakou hvězdu sundat... ale ne, mně pomohla, klidně si ji projdu znovu a za těch pár dolarů to byla dobrá koupě.

[Alexander Strandberg · Rating 5 out of 5]

To the point, clear explanations and examples on how to use the tools presented. Simple and easy to read.

[Patricia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Despite some annoying spelling & grammar errors (a sign to me that the proofreaders didn’t do a thorough job), I enjoyed the saga of Jeffrey’s turnaround of GooCrew as he learned the principles & tools of Hands-Off Leadership from his coach Alexandra. This story is in the same vein as Eliyahu Goldratt’s The Goal in which a fictional narrative is used to teach business leadership concepts. It’s a quick & easy read and can be used as a reference book with its glossary in the back.

[Alex French · Rating 3 out of 5]

I try to read everything that is “assigned reading” for managers above me. Our CTO has all the director-level folks reading this.

Plenty of good ideas.

Plenty that isn’t consistent or coherent or adequately justified.

Plenty that is downright cringe-worthy.