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Fierce WisdomBusiness Without HeroicsThe Courage to Stay Human

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The list is short on purpose. A book earns its place by having something lasting to say. Each title stands on its own.

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Fierce Wisdom

Wisdom is not soft.

Almost every serious leader eventually asks some version of the same question: must the deepest parts of me be subordinated to the demands of leading well? Most books answer with balance, which is a polite way of saying do less of the thing that is working. This book answers differently.

With Gandhi as the interior journey and Darwin as the exterior demand, Fierce Wisdom argues that the inner life and the competitive edge are the same faculty. The leader who develops both together reaches possibilities that neither one produces alone.

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Business Without Heroics

By the author of Fierce Wisdom

Most owner-led businesses are not constructed. They are held up.

The company has no method for pricing; it has the owner. No procedure for the difficult client; it has the owner. A business built that way has a ceiling, and the ceiling is the height of one person's attention.

Business Without Heroics follows Fierce Wisdom from the leader to the company: how an owner hands over real decisions, and what it takes to build a business that performs to its standard whether or not you are in the building.

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The Courage to Stay Human

Completes the trilogy that began with Fierce Wisdom

The one examination of your work you will not attend.

A business can survive its founder by thirty years and leave every person who passed through it diminished. That is not durability. This book asks a narrower question than most books about culture: what specifically transfers, and to whom.

The answer is a standard, carried in particular people, who install it in people you will never meet. Everything else is either a means of transferring that standard, or it is furniture.

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