Unleashed: The Unapologetic Leader's Guide to Empowering Everyone Around You, Hardcover

Bestselling authors Frances Frei and Anne Morriss champion a bold redefinition of leadership and offer a real-world guide for unleashing greatness in other people and, ultimately, yourself.

When leaders want to improve, they find an abundance of ideas to help build themselves up. They're told to identify and develop natural-born strengths, to mine their failures for insights into what they need to change, and to work hard to correct any real or perceived career-limiting deficiencies. Own the room. Eat last. Do you.

Frances Frei and Anne Morriss argue that this popular leadership advice glosses over the most important thing you can do to be a great leader: Build others up. Leadership, at its core, is not about you. As Frei and Morriss show through inspiring stories from the NBA to ancient Rome to Silicon Valley, real leadership is about how effective you are at making other people better--and making sure that this impact endures even in your absence.

Unleashed helps you do just that. Showing how the boldest, most effective leaders use a special combination of trust, love, and inclusion to create a space in which other people can excel, Frei and Morriss provide practical, battle-tested tools--based on their work in companies such as Uber, Riot Games, Walmart, and others--along with interviews and stories from their own personal experience to make these ideas come alive. This book is your indispensable guide for unleashing greatness in other people . . . and, ultimately, in yourself.

Frances Frei is a professor at Harvard Business School. She recently served as Uber's first SVP of leadership and strategy, charged with building a world-class leadership team, fostering leadership at all levels, and guiding the clear articulation of strategy. Frei regularly works with companies embarking on large-scale change and organizational transformation, including embracing diversity and inclusion as a lever for improving performance. Frei's research investigates how leaders create the context for organizations and individuals to thrive by designing for excellence in strategy, operations, and culture. Her work is published in top-tier journals and spans a variety of industries, including tech, retail, healthcare, and global multibrand organizations. Frei is widely recognized for her dynamic teaching style and breakthrough courses optimized for rapid, lasting impact. Her TED Talk on the topic of building trust has logged over 3.5 million views.

Anne Morriss is driven by an infectious commitment to helping people realize their full potential as leaders and change-makers. She is the Executive Founder of The Leadership Consortium, a first-of-its-kind leadership accelerator that works to build inclusive executive teams and elevate diverse leaders into senior leadership roles. She has spent the last twenty years building and leading mission-driven enterprises, serving most recently as founder and CEO of GenePeeks, a computational genomics company addressing the urgent need for better personal health information. Morriss started her career in rural Latin America, where she worked to support the development of local leaders in remote communities. Her collaborators have ranged from early-stage tech founders to Fortune 50 executives to public-sector leaders building national competitiveness.

Frei and Morriss are the authors of the bestselling book, Uncommon Service.

You can find the authors at:
Frances Frei: hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=6587
Anne Morriss: linkedin.com/in/anne-morriss-b1238b8/ and twitter.com/annemorriss?lang=en