Just Human: Rediscovering Our Shared Humanity in a Divisive World

99.9%*

That is how much of your DNA you share with every person you have ever managed, argued with, reported to, avoided in a hallway, 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.

This book is not an argument that our differences don't matter. They do. It's an argument about order of operations. Before the title, before the label, before whatever box you got sorted into on your first day, there is a person. Lead from that and almost everything else gets easier. Skip it and no framework on earth will save the meeting.

What's actually inside

Fifteen chapters built on 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.

It's built out of rooms I have been in. Stories, mostly. The kind where somebody said the thing they had been not saying for two years and the whole team changed shape in an afternoon.

On the list, you get

November 1

The cover, first, before the reveal goes public.

January

The publication date and how to get a copy, ahead of everyone else.

Who this is for

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 that 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.