Foster knows leadership. He's spent decades coaching executives, building teams, and studying what sets great leaders apart.
Then a simple interaction with a stranger in a pub turned into an invitation.
What started as one night away from a taxing few days at work turned into 120 miles through autumn hills and small towns with a man he'd just met. Somewhere between the trailhead and the last small town, something shifted.
That journey became this book.
Leadersh*t isn't a lesson with stories to illustrate it. It's a story — one you follow start to finish, through backcountry and conversation, that happens to completely reframe how you think about leading.
What the Wise Man kept coming back to wasn't strategy or skill. It was the stuff upstream of all that — the fear and noise and need to prove something that blocks a leader before they ever open their mouth. The stream metaphor he uses is simple and hard to forget: ideas, presence, openness, risk — these flow naturally when nothing is blocking them. Most of what we call "leadership problems" are blockage problems. And most blockages start with a leader who is still trying to earn their own worth.
The Wise Man's answer to that isn't a framework. It's older than frameworks. Presence. Accountability. Knowing what actually fuels you before you try to fuel anyone else.
Publisher: Madison House Media
Publication date: October 13, 2011
Print length: 224 pages
Foster knows leadership. He's spent decades coaching executives, building teams, and studying what sets great leaders apart.
Then a simple interaction with a stranger in a pub turned into an invitation.
What started as one night away from a taxing few days at work turned into 120 miles through autumn hills and small towns with a man he'd just met. Somewhere between the trailhead and the last small town, something shifted.
That journey became this book.
Leadersh*t isn't a lesson with stories to illustrate it. It's a story — one you follow start to finish, through backcountry and conversation, that happens to completely reframe how you think about leading.
What the Wise Man kept coming back to wasn't strategy or skill. It was the stuff upstream of all that — the fear and noise and need to prove something that blocks a leader before they ever open their mouth. The stream metaphor he uses is simple and hard to forget: ideas, presence, openness, risk — these flow naturally when nothing is blocking them. Most of what we call "leadership problems" are blockage problems. And most blockages start with a leader who is still trying to earn their own worth.
The Wise Man's answer to that isn't a framework. It's older than frameworks. Presence. Accountability. Knowing what actually fuels you before you try to fuel anyone else.
Publisher: Madison House Media
Publication date: October 13, 2011
Print length: 224 pages
