Lead & Influence: Get More Ownership, Commitment, and Achievement From Your Team

Praise for Lead & Influence "Lead and Influence marks the achievement of Mark Fritz's international career focused on leadership. It is the perfect toolkit for leaders working in cross-cultural environments. I personally use it as a quick reference guide when I am facing difficult situations in leading my businesses." —Emmanuel Carcassonne, serial entrepreneur, CEO of FC2 Asia, Shanghai, China "Having enjoyed Mark's enthusiasm as a professor at university as well as being an entrepreneur myself, this jewel was a must-read for me. Lead and Influence is the direct way for any manager to be recognized as a true leader. A must-read for anyone who has realized that no individual is as strong as the whole." —Anders Osterballe, CEO, ScanTech Group, Hong Kong "Mark Fritz comprehensively shares elements of commitment, required by successful leaders towards themselves and their teams on their journey to success." —Fahim Siddiqui, Chief Product Officer, Intralinks, USA "Open Mark's book and start your own personal coaching session! As leaders, Mark invites us to focus on creating the conditions that enable our team members to achieve success . . . and, in the process, own their job vs. rent it." —Pierre Schaeffer, founder, Marketect LLC, USA "Mark's ability to communicate topped with a clear and focused structure and enlightening examples makes the book easy to comprehend and it will incite you to take action. Mark's ideas about 'ownership' are quite simply brilliant. This is a must-read for all of us." —Kasper Ljungkvist, entrepreneur and investor, Sweden

MARK FRITZ coaches executives and managers on how to successfully lead across distances and cultures . . . and still have a life. For thirty years, as an executive at Eastman Kodak Company, he lived and worked across countries and cultures (in the US, Singapore, Egypt, Italy, the Netherlands, Japan, and the UK). An international speaker, Mark also provides one-on-one business culture coaching to executives who are moving between regions of the world. Mark is an Associate Professor at IE Business School in Madrid, teaching the contents from this book in various formats across the school's master's programs. The school also enlists Mark to coach all of their Global Executive MBA students.