Preorder · Out January 2027
Rediscovering Our Shared Humanity in a Divisive World
Cover revealed November 1
It lands on your device the morning it comes out. You're not charged until then. Preorder today and three things come with it.
Why I wrote this one, who it's for, and the one idea I'd want you to take even if you never buy it.
99.9%*
That is how much of your DNA you share with every person you have ever managed, argued with, reported to, or quietly written off.
The remaining tenth of a percent has gotten very good at taking up all the room. We inflate it. We build titles on top of it, then teams, then whole org charts, and after a while the difference is the only thing anybody can see. I call that difference inflation, and I have watched it wreck more leadership teams than any skills gap ever has.
Fifteen chapters, built out of rooms I have actually been in. Three moves I use with CHROs and leadership teams every week: connection to self, connection to others, connection to shared purpose. Awareness, then alignment, then action, in that order, because they don't work in any other one.
Not padding. These are the things I'd hand you if we were working together. The firesides in particular run once, in one window, and then not again.
The assessment I run with leadership teams. It reads where you sit across the three pillars — self, others, shared purpose — and names the one that is costing you something right now. Most people are surprised by which one it is.
We read the book together, two chapters at a time, every other Monday. I take one session of the workbook per fireside, open with the hard question, and then it's the room's. Eight dates, one run through. When they're done, they're done — I'm not repeating this series.
3:00–4:30pm Mountain. Come to all eight or come to one. Nobody takes attendance.
The companion workbook, as a PDF. Eight sessions for book clubs, small groups, and anyone reading alone. Every chapter gets one page: the one idea, a question to open with, the middle of the conversation, and the hard one — the question that costs something to answer. There is exactly one of those per chapter.
Preorder the Kindle edition. Takes about fifteen seconds.
Come back here and enter your Amazon order number on the claim page.
The profile and the workbook arrive by email, and your seat at the firesides is held.
Honor system, with a light check. I'm not going to make you upload a screenshot.
Honestly? It helps. Amazon counts every preorder on release day rather than the day it was placed, so a book with preorders behind it lands on the charts instead of trickling onto them. That is most of what decides whether a book gets found by people who have never heard of me.
What you get out of it is smaller and more practical. It shows up on your device that morning, you don't think about it again, and the price you paid is the lowest it will be between now and release.
Leaders who have done the assessments and read the books and still walk out of a room knowing something real got missed. People who manage other people and have started to suspect the hard part was never the strategy. Anyone who has been reduced to one line on a page and did not care for the experience.
About 99.9 percent, and that figure counts single-letter differences. When geneticists count every kind of variation, it lands closer to 99.6. I'm keeping the name, because the point doesn't move an inch. National Human Genome Research Institute, Human Genomic Variation.