Lead Together: Stop Squirreling Away Power and Build a Better Team

A new approach to leading teams and distributing power that creates a more fair, fulfilling, and flourishing world, within and outside the workplace.

Leaders today want to stop feeling overwhelmed and alone. They want to build engaged, diverse, resilient, and joyful teams that achieve great things together. They want a better way to lead.

Lead Together is a fictional story, grounded in psychology and laden with practical tools, that offers leaders a power-with rather than power-over paradigm. It explores how leaders can develop power jointly rather than use it as a top-down means of control, all in the form of a page-turning, squirrelly narrative.

Psychology researcher and business leader, Tania Luna, offers the tale of Sam Squirrel, branch manager of Nuts for You, Inc., whose company faces an impending forest recession. Sam employs the leadership tactics his boss, Jack Walnuts, taught him ("know the way and make them go your way") but achieves only distrust, disengagement, poor performance, and high turnover. During Sam's last-ditch effort to meet his quotas, he finds a hidden, thriving community that shows him a radical new way to lead. But will it be enough to save Nuts for You and help Sam realize his dream of becoming Chief Nut Officer? 

Lead Together springs from Luna's experience applying power-with principles to build a multimillion-dollar business with 96% employee engagement and less than 2% attrition. It shines a light on the little-known philosophy of organizational scholar Mary Parker Follett and takes inspiration from Daniel Quinn's philosophical fiction as well as Patrick Lencioni's and John Kotter's parables. It is for any leader, manager, professional, or even family member interested in a more personal, sustainable, democratic, and equitable way of achieving their goals.

100% of proceeds from the sale of this book will go to ScarletSpark.org, the author’s nonprofit dedicated to growing the power of organizations that help animals and our planet.

Visit the author’s website to view special rewards for bulk orders (including discussion guides, workshops, and a live Q&A with the author): https://www.tanialuna.com/packages