The Complete Upstanding Leader Series

Three short field guides. One framework for how you show up, carry responsibility, and build with other people.

Leadership gets complicated. Human beings don't have to be.

We notice when someone's words don't match their actions. We feel it when we're accountable for something we don't have the authority to change. We know the difference between being trusted with autonomy and simply being left alone.

The Upstanding Leader series gives those experiences language, and then builds them into a practical framework.

The Playground Rule starts with you: the gaps between what you intend, what you do, and what other people experience.

Upstanding Foundation builds the floor of integrity and explores the constantly shifting balance between authority and accountability.

Upstanding Leadership adds how autonomy is entrusted, then uses knowledge, process, and transparency to create the stability that allows people and organizations to move.

The books are deliberately short. They're meant to be read, questioned, returned to, talked about, and put to work.

Because becoming an Upstanding Leader isn't about mastering another leadership philosophy.

It's about what happens when the philosophy has to survive contact with reality.

Series ISBN 978-1-951262-16-7

Print edition · Paperback · 5.5 × 8.5 in · 95 pages

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Upstanding Leader — 3 books, paperback

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