Lateral Leadership
How to mobilize cross-functional teams by resorting to non-hierarchical drivers.
Author(s): Roger Fisher, Alan Sharp
Publisher: Profile Business
Date of publication: 2004
Manageris opinion
How move things forward when you are not the boss? Such is the topic of this enlightening book on lateral management. The authors thus study the non-hierarchical basis for authority. For example, how to define an objective that effectively engages people from different backgrounds and points of view? Or how to offer to each constituent a motivating role? The proposed ideas are not particularly earth shaking, but represent a good overview of the key drivers that can be used to persuade others to cooperate voluntarily without the force of authority.
