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Close the Loop
Leadership as the discipline of staying connected to reality. Sense earlier, decide better, and correct faster.
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Six books examining why leadership succeeds, fails, and corrects.
Each book takes apart a different mechanism: leader-role fit, organizational feedback, trust under pressure, or the systems that allow bad leadership to persist.
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Right Leader, Wrong Arena
Why identical capabilities produce excellence in one environment and friction in another.
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2025
The 12 Ordeals of Leadership
A practical guide to the recurring tests of uncertainty, trust, conflict, delegation, and balance.
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2024
The Leadership Incompetence Index
A field guide to diagnosing bad leadership early by finding root causes, red flags, and remedies.
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2025
You Don’t Know Sh*t About Leadership
A blunt examination of why leaders fail and how trust, cohesion, excellence, and purpose are actually built.
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2025
Viking Leadership
What archaeology, sagas, and historical records reveal about leadership in small, high-consequence societies.
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From fit to feedback.
Right Leader, Wrong Arena asks whether the person fits the environment. Close the Loop asks whether the organization can detect error and correct course. Together, they describe the two mechanisms at the center of Summary Leadership: alignment and adaptation.