Leading the transformation nobody trained you for
When your organization transformed, the teams got the training. Nobody told you your job had changed. You've been winging the hell out of it, and this book knows it.
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From the introduction
The one where the new way of working came up, and somebody looked to you, and you nodded like a person who knew, and steered the conversation somewhere you could survive.
You've gotten good at that steer. You've built a whole toolkit by now: the confident redirect, the question that buys time, the tab you open after the call to look up the thing you just discussed like an expert. From the outside it looks like leading. From the inside, you know exactly what it is.
That is not a confession of fraud. It's evidence of what got skipped. When your organization transformed, the teams got the training, the coaches got the certifications, the walls got the new charts, and you, the person the whole thing depends on, got a deck, a deadline, and a nod. And when the change stalled, the industry had a name ready for your layer. The frozen middle. As if you froze yourself.
This book is what should have been handed to you on day one.
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Inside the book
Each discipline is taught inside a real room from three decades and more than sixty enterprise transformations: the planning a leader quietly undid table by table, the executive who bought the most admired culture in his industry and couldn't see it, the three-minute conversation that changed a career. Plus an afterword on the transformation arriving right now.
About the book
Everyone assumed you knew.
When your organization transformed, the teams got the training. The coaches got the certifications, the walls got new charts, the meetings got new names. Nobody handed you a map. You were thrown in the deep end with a deck, a deadline, and a nod, and you've been winging it ever since: nodding in the right places, looking up the vocabulary after the meeting, projecting a calm you didn't feel.
This is not a book of excuses; leaders own their share of every stalled change, and this one will put plenty on your plate. It's about a simpler, harder fact: the people asked to lead a transformation are usually the only ones never prepared for it. Whether you're a first-time CEO or leading your first team, that gap is real, it is common, and until now nobody built anything for it.
You are not the exception. You were never alone in this. Come find out what everyone assumed you already knew.
The Leadership Gap Check
The other nine are in the book, and so is what to do with your answers. A no isn't a verdict. It's a page number.
The afterword
AI is the transformation arriving right now, and it is testing every discipline in this book at once. The afterword takes the twelve rooms forward: how to lead your organization into AI without moving faster in the wrong direction, and why the leaders being skipped this time are the same ones who were skipped last time.
About the author
Josh and Hannibal.
Bring this into the room
For leadership teams standing exactly where you're standing: keynotes, workshops, and training on the twelve disciplines, for organizations in the middle of the transformation nobody trained them for.
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