summary of the ''Leading when you are not a boos''

Name: Ebrahim oamr AL-dini

Student Card : 01218201

Topic: Leading when you're not the boss

Author: Roger Strauthosen

Reference:: Leading when you're not the boss ( Book

Published in: November 2015

We want to approach our topic of leadership in complex business organizations by first looking at the economy as a whole. In widening our view to an environment which is infinitely more complex than even the biggest corporation, we hope to gain insights that can inform our later discussion of business interactions in more confined contexts. 

  : And if you want be leading a team without being a boss you have to know your self .. such as 

  Know Thyself. Be Authentic. Build Trust.” Make this your leadership mantra and watch your capacity to lead amplify 

1 ) Know Thyself.

Self-awareness is the cornerstone of emotional intelligence (EQ), and EQ is a topic we talk about a lot here at FounderForward (see our last blog post on EQ > IQ).

You probably have a mission, vision, and values for your company, right?

Why not spend a few hours creating those for yourself? Ask yourself: What is my mission? What’s the vision for my next year? What’s the vision for my life 10 years from now? What values matter most to me as a person?

Writing these things down will help you to identify what’s really important to you and to align your behaviors with your beliefs.

While you’re at it, spend some time reflecting on your strengths and weakness, stressors and fears, drivers and motivators, and blind sp''ots and  limiting beliefs.

The goal is to zero in on who you really are. And who you want to be. If there are gaps, use this as an opportunity to learn and grow as a human and as a leader.

2 ) Be Authentic.

We hear a lot about “being authentic” these days.

Authenticity in leadership means acting and interacting in ways that are aligned with your personality and principles. It means being genuine and staying true to yourself.

Authentic leaders are not afraid to show their emotions or to be vulnerable. In fact, they share when they make mistakes and highlight what they learned with their team.

So, why is authenticity important? Authenticity inspires connection and engenders trust

3 ) Build Trust.

You want and need your employees, your customers, your partners and your investors to trust you. Trust is the key to your success.

Without it, teams fall apart, cultures crack, and companies fail.

In fact, after interviewing 525 top CEOs, New York Times columnist Adam Bryant concluded: “If you were to force me to rank the most important qualities of effective leadership, I would put trustworthiness at the top.”

He continued, “I keep going back to first principles of how we’re wired as human beings — we can sense at a kind of lizard-brain level whether we trust someone.”

Trust makes people feel safe and more positive (literally building up oxytocin, serotonin, and dopamine in the brain). And you need these feelings (yes, techies, we said feelings) for your teams, culture, and company to thrive.

Self-organizing

Use a three-step process to build self- organization  

Training. Team members need to get the desired skill set. ...

Coaching. Now, it's important that the scrum master adopts a coaching style to help team members with any difficulties. ...

Mentoring. Keeping a team self-organizing is an ongoing process.

What is

Self-organizing teams choose how best to accomplish their work, rather than being directed by others outside the team." "Development Teams are structured and empowered by the organization to organize and manage their own work." "Development Teams have the following characteristics: They are self-organizing

: some of the benefits of Self-organization are 

Team buy-in and shared ownership.

Motivation, which leads to an enhanced performance level of the team.

An innovative and creative environment conducive to growth...  Moreover, self-organization is important in this field