Lead Deep

How Leaders Change What Talented Teams Can Do

Forthcoming from Fast Company Press, 2027.

Why do some teams do breakthrough work while others, with similar talent, never do? Work scatters, teams get stuck, or they stay busy on work that doesn't end up mattering. And the hardest problems to catch are on teams where nothing looks wrong at all.

Lead Deep is about how leaders change what talented teams can do: making what matters now clear, building teams that move, and going deep where they can make a difference.

It draws on more than two decades on engineering teams and interviews with more than thirty leaders at Google, Netflix, NVIDIA, Anthropic, Apple, Meta, and other companies.

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