What the Dark Teaches

Essays on leading through the long stretches when there is no answer.

Every leader is expected to have the answer. The best ones have learned a harder thing: how to move through the long stretches when there is no answer to be had.

Organizations crave certainty above almost everything, and the craving quietly makes them fragile. We ask our leaders to be oracles and reward a confidence the situation rarely justifies. This volume is about the honest reckoning with what is genuinely unknown — and the strength it takes to say I don't know.

Digital edition · 58 pages · instant download (PDF).