How to Step Up Stepping Up: Promoting Guest

Why this matters here

Cockburn’s “guest leadership” essay describes how people without formal authority can step up—and step back—so collaboration keeps moving when the titled leader is not the best actor for the moment. When Others Look to You starts from a related observation: leadership begins when others take their cues from you, title or not. The book extends Cockburn’s collaboration practice into the moral weight of that attention—influence multiplies once people keep looking.