The Leadership Habits That Actually Work: True Stories, Hard Lessons, and 20 Habits Every Team Leader and Manager Needs

My strongest analyst gave notice on a Wednesday. Standing in the doorway, she told me exactly when I'd started asking for daily updates — the moment I quietly stopped trusting her.

It wasn't one big thing. That's what stayed with me.

The Leadership Habits That Actually Work is the list I built after that Wednesday — part my own mistakes, part other people's, under far higher stakes than a resignation letter.

🚀 Apollo 13 — why the best fix came from a side room in Houston, not the flight director's chair

✈️ Sullenberger on the Hudson — the six seconds between reacting and responding

🚗 Toyota's Prius — why smart risk has a ceiling on the downside, not just the upside

🎤 The apology I never quite got around to making

🤝 Why what gets noticed gets repeated — for better or worse

Twenty chapters. No motivational posters. Just the daily choices that quietly decide whether people stay or start updating their resume.

Get your copy. Leadership shows up on an ordinary Wednesday, not a stage.