Leadership is broken.And it is breaking the people trying to carry it.
The Leadership Reset is for leaders who have become the person everything runs through, and are ready to lead another way.
The Leadership Reset is for leaders who have become the person everything runs through, and are ready to lead another way.
The book opens with Lance Carter, a mission-driven CEO running on empty, who unexpectedly runs into James Ellison. James was his old boss. Brilliant, relentless, a master of control, and the kind of leader Lance spent his career determined not to become.
James is different now. What starts as a coffee becomes a year of Tuesday mornings, and a series of conversations about trust, fatigue, silence, culture, and what it actually costs to lead without presence.
Part story, part strategy. It does not teach performance, it teaches presence. It does not offer easy answers, it offers the courage to ask better questions. And it does not set out to fix you. It reminds you who you were before the job started asking you to be someone else.
Readers finish with a way to build cultures of trust rather than control, to use silence as strategy and values as compass, and to face the six questions most leaders avoid.
"A rare combination of practical wisdom, real‑life experience and soulful reflection."
Chet P. HewittPresident and CEO, Sierra Health Foundation
How a command-and-control instinct quietly caps what your team can do, and what it costs you to keep holding the center.
Practical ways to rebuild trust inside a team, so people can say the thing that needs saying without calculating the risk first.
The culture and the systems that let people work well when you are not in the room, which is the only real test of leadership.
Put the book to work. The workbook gives you a short self-assessment, reflection questions, and a seven-day challenge to start leading differently this week.
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Ira ChaleffAuthor of The Courageous Follower
Lyn Corbett is president of The Pivotal Group Consultants, where he has spent more than 25 years and 850 engagements helping nonprofit leaders build organizations that outlast them.
He holds a PhD in Leadership Studies from the University of San Diego, where he teaches graduate courses in strategy and leadership. He is also the author of Hope Is Not a Strategy and the founder of The Nonprofit Edge.
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