Don't Delegate. Mobilize. (Paperback)

Paperback. The work was delegated. Ownership wasn't.Leaders delegate because organizations could not function without it. Responsibilities need to be clear. Work needs to be assigned. People need to be accountable.But when the result matters enough-and when achieving it requires people to cross boundaries, solve problems no one anticipated, and contribute beyond what could have been prescribed-delegation alone is not enough.The initiative may be assigned. The meetings may happen. The deadlines may be clear. Yet questions, decisions, and problems keep coming back to the leader. When the leader's attention moves elsewhere, progress slows.Ownership is not assigned. It is claimed.In Don't Delegate. Mobilize., Sergio Sedas draws on more than thirty years working with leaders, organizations, entrepreneurs, and students to explore a different approach to leadership: creating the conditions in which people see a possibility, understand why it matters, step forward, and choose to help make it real. Pasted markdownThrough eight principles organized around three movements-Create the Possibility, Mobilize the People, and Generate Momentum-the book shows leaders how to: - Start with the future they actually want rather than what the current system makes seem reasonable- Make the gap between today's reality and that future impossible to ignore- Declare a possibility worth pursuing- Connect people to why it matters- Mobilize beyond the people they would normally assign the work to- Build a coalition with the authority, resources, knowledge, influence, and relationships to move it- Turn action into early evidence, belief, and momentum- Build enough ownership that the possibility can continue without the person who first declared it Pasted markdownDelegation creates one owner. Mobilization creates a movement. Pasted markdownThis is not a book about getting people to do more. It is about a different way of thinking about leadership-and what becomes possible when people stop waiting to be told what to do and begin taking ownership of what could be. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…