Getting It Done: How to Lead When You're Not in Charge Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Roger Fisher (Author), Alan Sharp (Author), Mario Machado (Narrator),

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"Profound lessons made simple by one of the world's greatest teachers." In this chaotic world of teams, matrix management, and horizontal organizations, it's tougher than ever to get things done. How can you lead when you're not the one in charge? How can you be effective when joint action is needed? You need an edge in order to reach solutions and effectively work with people. introducing the technique of lateral leadership, Getting it Done explains how you can: best help a group formulate a clear vision of the results they want; suggest a course of action; learn from past experiences; ask questions effectively; offer ideas that will be heard, and influence the actions of other through your own behavior. The invaluable skills of lateral leadership enable you to achieve the ultimate goal-successful collaboration.

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2 hours and 29 minutes
Author

Roger Fisher, see all
Narrator

Mario Machado
Audible release date

May 22 2009
Language

English
Publisher

Phoenix Books
ASIN

B071VK7X5L
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Unabridged
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Listening Length	2 hours and 29 minutes
Author	Roger Fisher, Alan Sharp
Narrator	Mario Machado
Audible.ca Release Date	May 22 2009
Publisher	Phoenix Books
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B071VK7X5L
Best Sellers Rank	#100,250 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #473 in Negotiating #484 in Negotiating Skills (Books) #2,543 in Career Guides (Books)

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Lenny

Five Stars

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on July 20, 2014

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Karin Dellinger

Maximizing You're Group's Potential

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on July 31, 2003

When searching online for a book on leadership, this book's title,"Getting It Done. How to Lead When You're Not in Charge", immediately grabbed my attention. It seemed perfect for what I needed a little help on. I am sure I am not alone. Everyone at one point in their life is forced into a group situation, whether it is in school, work or everyday life, where they are assigned a problem in which the group needs to accomplish together. However, before a group can solve the problem assigned, it needs to conquer the problems within the group. One of the problems that I have found to exist within every group I have been in is how to reach solutions and successfully work with others when no one knows exactly who is in charge. Everyone needs to individually take on responsibility and contribute, but it works best when you know exactly what you should focus on and the right questions to ask your group members to obtain the best results. This book does an excellent job in first of all, mapping out the problems that groups face and then going into detail by explaining the route group members should take to maximize success. Fisher and Sharp have five basic elements that groups can follow to get things done. By following these five easy steps it will give you a clear focus of how to put it all together and create a successful way to complete the tasks assigned within your group. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants a little extra help to maximize their group's potential. It is very easy to read and the information and suggestions that the authors provide will be remembered and used every time I am placed in a group situation again.

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Jav

Great book on teamwork... and much more

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on March 18, 2002

This book gave me more than I spected whenI bought it.
I was looking for some guidelines on good teamwork behavior, and I didn't got just that but far more usefull insight on plain work.
Reagarding working with others, the best part is the Feedbck chapter. You'll never give advice to a team mate in the same way after you had read this book. Everybody know someone that "takes advice the wron way", well you'll learn that maybe you and everybo else are giving advice in the wrong way.
Besides this particulary well covered subject, the author explains very usefull techniques to improove not only group workin but personal efficiency. All of this is ilustrated with down to earth examples and exercises.
I read the first edition almost one year ago, and I keep going back to it as if it was reference book, and in some way it is

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Solid Advice for the Most Common Business Problem

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on May 13, 2000

Whenever I meet with bright, motivated business people who want to improve the world, they always complain about others in their organizations who will not cooperate in a change process. Get those reluctant people on board the progress train, and the more positive future will soon arrive. Almost never do these complainers realize that their own habits, perspective, and behavior are contributing to delaying the progress by making others oppose the initiative.
Getting It Done is a wonderful book for helping each of us see ourselves as part of the problem and part of the solution in situations when many people must cooperate. That's a first in my experience.
The book builds on that valuable perspective by suggesting what skills we each need to improve, and how we can implement a process that will lead to genuine, effective progress. That is very critical, because most improvements occur because someone has designed an effective process to ease their implementation. In new areas, by definition, there is seldom such a process. My suggestion is that you try this one if you have no other.
I also liked the way the authors went on to generalize about how lateral leadership (influencing peers) provides lessons for when you are the boss. The same lessons apply here as well. Influencing people through genuine involvement leads to both better solutions and to better implementation.
If you only read and learn to apply one book this year, Getting It Done should be that book. My reasoning is simple. If you cannot help those you work with to make successful collaborations, you and everyone around you will always operate at a low level of effectiveness. Also, your work day will be filled with stress, conflict, pressure, too much to do, and worry. That's not the way you want to live. Getting It Done can help you develop the skills to get the benefits of how all of us know and can do more than any one of us. When you are able to get that benefit from being in an enterprise, life becomes very interesting, rewarding, and meaningful. You will also feel good about living closer to your potential as a person.

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Marta McIntosh

Two Stars

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 5, 2017

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Armando L. Franco Carrillo

Why do people not listen to good ideas?

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on June 18, 2002

Somebody told me once: "Never talk about a problem without giving a solution". After reading this book, I think it should be: "without inviting others to improve a solution you have drafted".
The ideas presented in this book do a great deal to improve communication and gain support. I have reread some of my old memos, and now understand why people did not like them, even if they clearly explained the situation and proposed a solution. I used not to invite people to think with me.
I have applied many of the topics to my every day life, specially at work, and it's given results. I mostly try to invite others to participate in the process, and remember that all ideas can be improved.

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Jim Grey

A book about successful collaboration

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on June 20, 2001

This is a book about a collaboration technique that is packaged as a book about leadership. Although good leaders collaborate, I felt cheated by what this book turned out to cover. Although the book presents sound principles and correctly advises readers to apply these principles personally before using them in groups, I felt that these principles were obvious, low-level stuff. I wanted something more advanced.

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Moustpha Noureddine

The title ought to be different

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on October 18, 2001

I read the book carefully, i kept looking for triggers on leadership, i found none that i felt effective. It is an alright book on collaboration but not on leadership. The topics were not stongly emphasized, basically i gained no knowledge out of reading this book. I kept feeling bad i did not buy getting to Yes.

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rrickarr

Very poor Book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 9, 2018

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I am appalled at how this book offers very little concrete steps. It basically promotes the point that if you will personally develop your skills, things will work out. What does this have to do with being part of a team that is dysfunctional - a common situation in which you might 'want to lead when you're not in charge' ? I used to be part of a team in which I was the only male member. A typical meeting would begin with something like one female member remarking on another's shoes and the entire first 10 minutes of the meeting would feature all the females discussing shoes!!!! So, I want to learn how I, who was not in charge, could have transformed that dynamic and encouraged everyone to get to the business of the day. So let's turn to CH. 6 - Engagement. The advice given is, 'offer everyone a challenging role.' Well how do I do this? One piece of advice was: 'Reframe your job to include engaging challenges.' Sounds nice but how does that make other people suddenly come to a meeting and get on with the business at hand? In the same chapter, we are told, expand your job to include things that aren't being done." I fail to see how this allows me to, as the title of the books suggests, "lead when you're not in charge." This book is a lot of waffle. I am terribly disappointed.

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San Patch

Clear, Simple Way to Learn Lateral Leadership

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 21, 2009

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Have you ever been in a position where you did not have formal authority to change the behaviour of fellow team members only to discover, to your chagrin that telling them what to do is futile? Have you ever suspected - even slightly - that you may have contributed your fair share to the poor collaboration within your team? If so, then this book, "Getting it Done", is for you. Messrs Fisher and Sharp present a few simple techniques to help people like me, who answered in the affirmative to both questions above, influence the behaviour of my peers. They call these techniques, lateral leadership. These techniques are summarised below:

PURPOSE. Formulate the purpose of the team in terms of results to be achieved. In order to ensure that the rest of the team buys into the purpose, then it is essential that the team is involved in formulating the purpose. Furthermore, set purposes that will be attained in the short, medium and long term. It is essential to ensure a balance among the three time frames.

THINKING. The authors note with some wit that we, as individuals, think haphazardly and this is compounded when we work in teams. Therefore, it is important when collectively solving problems to think systematically from the data (the evidence for the problem) through diagnosis (possible causes of then problem) and direction (strategy to resolve problem) to what to do next (immediate tactics to realise the strategy).

LEARNING. This was the most useful insight that I gleaned from the book. The authors suggest that one learns from experience and review practice as often as possible in the team. This thinking may sound trite but it exposed my predisposition to separate planning the work from doing actually doing the work.

ENGAGEMENT. Our job descriptions almost never description all that we can do at work to improve collaboration. Even though one may have a `technical' job description one can still offer to engage with colleagues to improve collaboration.

FEEDBACK. Authors describe three uses of feedback: for evaluation, appreciation or change of behaviour.

The authors' style is easy to follow, punchy, matter-of-fact but somewhat tentative. They portray the book as `work in progress' and even go to some length to state that it (the book) may not be for everyone in the corporate hierarchy. The authors draw on their vast experience in teaching negotiation courses at Harvard. One potential drawback to the book's matter-of-fact style is that engaging case studies are thin on the ground. I thought that the paucity of human stories in the book deprived it of some intellectual bite.

Nevertheless, I thoroughly enjoyed reading Getting it Done. I see this book as a reference that will help me develop some of the behaviours that I want to see replicated in my immediate team at work. For ease of reading, clarity of delivery and aptness to my work situation, Getting it Done deserves my 4 stars.

5 people found this helpful

Adil Hussain

Some very useful tips for working better with others

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 28, 2008

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There is no doubting that working in a team we get more done than working alone. This book is packed with tips on how we can work/collaborate better with others. The advice is based on a method of "lateral leadership", which consists of three steps: "The first step is to organise and sharpen your personal skills at getting things done by yourself. The second step is to understand clearly your strategic goal of an organised way of getting things done with others. The third step is learning some tactics of participatory leadership." The first two steps I kind of skim-read. Techniques pertaining to the third step I found particularly thought-provoking and useful; techniques related to asking, offering and doing things that "stimulate others to become skillful at working together".

In summary: another good book from the Harvard Negotiation team; well-structured and plenty of examples to demonstrate the advice.

2 people found this helpful

Kuhalampi Aki

A very good book with a short

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 4, 2014

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A very good book with a short, to-the-point type writing style. Helps to reduce caos and add understanding with common sense and practical examples.

Abobonuah

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 23, 2018

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