Ready to stand up and create positive change at work, but reluctant to speak up? True leadership doesn’t always come from a position of power or authority. By teaching you skills and providing practical advice, this handbook shows you how to engage your coworkers and bosses and bring your ideas forward so that they are heard, considered, and acted upon.
Authors Carmen Medina and Lois Kelly—once rebels themselves—reveal ways to navigate your workplace, avoid common mistakes and traps, and overcome the fears that may be holding you back. You can achieve more success and less frustration, help your organization do better work, and—most important—find more meaning and joy in what you do.
Lois Kelly has been a creative rebel throughout her career, working for big corporations and marketing agencies, helping some of the most respected companies in the world deal with crises, create new ways to launch products, communicate complex issues, influence public opinion, go public, adopt bleeding edge business practices, and occasionally try to move mountains. During this journey Lois has become a student of change, learning what it takes to get people to embrace change. She lives in Rhode Island, the smallest and quite possibly most creative state in the United States and tweets under @LoisKelly and @RebelsAtWork.
Carmen Medina spent 32 years as a heretic at the Central Intelligence Agency. Despite this, she held several senior positions, including serving on the executive team that led the CIA's analytic directorate. She thinks most organizations don't have a good way of determining when it's time to transform and/or "sell" their current business model, and that rebels can provide organizations with the important early warning system they so desperately need. Since retiring from CIA in 2010, Carmen has continued to write and speak about Rebels at Work, analysis and strategic warning, the emerging of new global norms in the 21st century and cognitive diversity. She is Puerto Rican by birth and Texan by nationality. She tweets under @milouness and @RebelsAtWork.