THE RIGHT ALTITUDE FIELD GUIDES
One dimension. All the way down.
The Right Altitude covers the whole map — twelve chapters across the full territory of leadership. The field guides work differently. Each one takes a single dimension and goes deep: smaller format, built to be carried, marked up, and used. Read the flagship for the map. Pick up a field guide for the territory you're standing in right now.
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50 Traits That Define How Leaders Show Up
Fifty traits, each one observable, each one workable. Not a personality test — a mirror.
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Building the Ability to Move People Without Authority
You were right. You were prepared. The decision still went the other way. The second field guide covers the seven dimensions of influence — and the five traps that keep good work invisible.
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Having the Talk
You've Been Avoiding
Hard conversations across five phases. The complete guide to the talk you've been avoiding — the leaders who earn trust aren't the ones who keep the peace, they're the ones who learned to have the conversation everyone else is ducking.
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Making Your Feedback Count.
Most feedback doesn’t fail because it’s wrong. It fails because it’s too vague to act on or too late to matter. The fourth field guide breaks the practice into five pieces and closes the gap between what you’re saying and what your team is hearing.
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Letting Go of the Work That Got You Here
You know you should delegate more. The fifth field guide names the real reason you don’t — it was never about time — and walks you through putting the work down for good.
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Working with Your Boss Without Losing Yourself.
The highest-leverage relationship you have is the one most leaders leave to chance. The sixth field guide covers reading the person you report to — and making the relationship work in both directions.
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When the Engine Runs Out of Fuel
The exhaustion isn’t the price of the altitude. The seventh field guide treats burnout as arithmetic — six practices to find the deficit, close it, and rebuild.
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Leading Through the Reorg
You can be good at your job and still lose your seat in a reorg. The eighth field guide treats change as a condition of the role, not weather: six practices to read it, position through it, and lead the team that's watching.
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Evidence, Recovery, and the End of Faking It
You do good work and the confidence never catches up to it. The ninth field guide treats confidence as a practice, not a feeling: six things you can run whether or not the feeling shows up, and one diagnostic that finds where it breaks.
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Standards, Gaps, and the Team You Actually Have
Someone on your team is underperforming and you've been letting it slide. The tenth field guide starts further back than the conversation: with the standard nobody wrote down, the gap that's actually the problem, and nine practices, six for your team and three for you.
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More guides are coming.
The series will cover the dimensions leaders ask about most.
Start with the flagship — The Right Altitude