A USA TODAY BESTSELLER • ONE OF FORBES TOP 10 BUSINESS BOOKS OF 2024

ELEVATE LEADERSHIP TO TEAMSHIP.

In today’s volatile, fast-paced, and decentralized business environment, even the most talented leaders can’t succeed alone—they need to mobilize the full potential of the team and build a resilient workplace culture.

The world’s highest-performing organizations under­stand they need more than leadership to win—they need teamship. Teamship is a profound shift from today’s hierarchical model to sharing the load among a team that elevates one another and the organization to achieve exponential results.

Based on more than twenty years of research with more than three thousand teams, world-renowned coach and bestselling author Keith Ferrazzi has cracked the code on what defines the top 15 percent of high-performing teams. In Never Lead Alone, Ferrazzi brings to life what is expected of teammates in teamship’s new agile, inclusive, innovative, and challenge culture. Teamship combines:

1. Co-elevation behaviors—the teammates’ com­mitment to pushing one another higher in aligned pursuit of the mission, and
2. twenty-first-century collaboration processes, prac­tices, and tools to transform team performance and drive organizational development.

Through rigorous data, dozens of high-return prac­tices, and vivid case studies you will learn:

• the 10 critical shifts to teamship, including peer-to-peer accountability, personal trust, shared feedback, team resilience, and adopting agile ways of working;
• how to agree on a new high-performance, high-integrity team social contract; and
• approaches to leveraging collaborative technology and AI.

Never Lead Alone is an essential step-by-step road map for every teammate and all leaders on their team’s journey from average to extraordinary, a must-read for modern business management.

“Never Lead Alone challenges teammates to rethink their assumptions about what they can expect from each other and what they can achieve together.”  — Dylan Jadeja, CEO, Riot Games “So simple yet so powerful. Ferrazzi has written another practical masterpiece, this time on the art and science of teamship. Never Lead Alone is a great roadmap for building a winning team.”  — Patti Poppe, CEO, PG&E “Ferrazzi’s shift from leadership to teamship is a game-changer. Never Lead Alone provides a clear and powerful guide on how to create a culture of innovation and shared success.”  — Tshering Tobgay, prime minister, Kingdom of Bhutan “Focusing on Teamship behaviors within our organization has enabled faster and broader collaboration for real breakthrough results. Never Lead Alone is a beacon for teams seeking transformative outcomes in a rapidly evolving world.”  — Callie Field, president, Business Group, T-Mobile “Never Lead Alone offers a masterful blueprint for cultivating high-performance teams that are greater than the sum of their parts. Ferrazzi’s pragmatic approach seamlessly blends visionary insights with actionable strategies, empowering leaders to unlock immediate results.” — Bill McDermott, chairman and CEO, ServiceNow “This book is a gift to teammates everywhere. Ferrazzi’s accessible strategies for fostering teamship are massively refreshing for teams at all levels and forge a path to better collaboration in any institution.”   — Steve Collis, chairman, president, and CEO, Cencora

Keith Ferrazzi is an entrepreneur and global thought leader in high performing teams and Chairman of Ferrazzi Greenlight and its Research Institute. He is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Who’s Got Your Back and bestsellers like Never Eat Alone, Leading Without Authority, and Competing in the New World of Work. He is a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review, the Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Forbes, Inc, Fortune, and other publications. Ferrazzi’s twenty-year history of transforming C-Suite executive teams has made him an agent of transformation among the world’s greatest and most sought-after coaches.