Clint Gault's Reflections

  What?  Keith Ferrazzi’s Leading Without Authority rule six describes his descriptions and how you should celebrate, support, and praise your team members. In the book, the point that stood out to me the most was the ability to take an unreasonable stand for your employees or group members. According to Ferrazzi, some people are unsure of their capabilities and lack confidence when they possess the knowledge and skills to complete their work (Ferrazzi, 2020). Ferrazzi continues that by saying “We need to champion these people for whatever reason aren’t great at championing themselves.” It is hard for some people to change and those people who believe they aren't capable of their duties even believe it is harder to undergo transformative change to better their confidence and believe in themselves. To get people to understand that they can change and improve their knowledge and expertise is essential to always be transforming your skillset for the future.  So What? So wh...

What?  In Keith Ferrazzi’s Leading Without Authority rule four, he talks about how we can create more meaningful, deeper collaborating relationships when working in groups. The practices he goes over in rule four are different ways that groups can achieve the idea of co-elevating co-creation, but I believe for that to happen you must be honest with yourself and make candor compulsory. When working in a group it is important, to be honest, and truthful so the group can avoid groupthink and be able to achieve the best results possible and create true, honest cohesion amongst the group. It is important to ask your group, in the beginning, do you all trust each other and if you will be willing to share the most critical and boldest ideas with the group ( Ferrazzi, 2020). So What?  It is important for teams to be honest with each other as it can affect the results of the project and can affect future collaboration if members are not vocal or honest when sharing information or the...