For a short video commentary with Robin Sharma go to: http://www.schooleymitchell.com/the-pulse/leader-no-title/

In this book Sharma reviews:

• How to work with and influence people, regardless of your position


• The secrets of intense innovation


• A strategy to build a great team and become a “merchant of wow” with your clients


• Tactics to become mentally strong and physically tough enough


• Methods to overcome stress, build an unbeatable mind-set, unleash energy, and balance your personal life

Sharma hypothesizes that regardless of what you do within your organization and the current circumstances of your life, the single most important fact is that you have the power to show leadership where you are planted and play at peak in all you do. This book discusses how to claim that power. Sharma proposes to transform your life—and the world around you—in the process.

In a relatively short amount of time Sharma’s engaging story is designed to help you understand why it is imperative that each of us pursues a level of personal leadership regardless of titles or position. The book provides actions that each person can take to increase the ability to lead without a title.

As the story begins we find Blake Davis, a 30-ish, Iraq veteran, who had struggled for years to find his place in this world, telling us his story of how he was able to turn his life around just be adopting the LWT (Lead Without a Title) philosophy. As Blake is languishing in his day to day chores working at a local bookstore he meets Tommy, a man that will change Blake’s life forever.  As they begin their relationship, Tommy walks Blake through what the LWT philosophy is all about. Then, for the remainder of the book Tommy takes Blake on a voyage of personal discovery that will help Blake apply the LWT philosophy to his own life.

As the story progresses, Tommy takes Blake to meet four LWT teachers. Each of these teachers take Blake through one of the four pillars of the LWT philosophy. At each stop Blake becomes more and more enamored with the philosophy and in thinking of ways to apply this to his day-to-day life.

Before Blake can meet the four teachers, Tommy must first make sure that Blake understands the what and the why of LWT before they get to the how. Tommy familiarizes Blake with ideas that reflect what mediocrity and exceptionality  mean. Once they have set this ground work Blake begins on the road to meet the four teachers.

The message of this book is for each and every one of us, regardless of position or title, to develop how we lead ourselves so that we positively influence as many people as possible in our day to day life.