Navigating Leadership Without Formal Authority

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This chapter discusses the challenges of being a leader without formal authority and provides strategies for navigating this role. The speakers emphasize the importance of defining responsibilities and decision-making power, mentoring team members, and making constructive suggestions to define decision rights with superiors. They also address the challenges faced by women in male-dominated industries and offer advice on building trust, finding purpose, and focusing on strengths.

What if one of your first assignments at a new job was to fire people? What should you do if the person leading a project you’re on isn’t giving clear direction, demands that you work nights and weekends, bristles at your feedback—and leadership tells you to fall in line? These are two of the five situations that Amy B and Amy G talk through in this episode. They offer advice to the women who wrote in with their questions, with the hope that it will help them and anyone who’s been in a similar situation, or might be one unfortunate day.

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