From Follower to Leader (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by Independently Published, 2026
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Paperback. Most people become leaders the same way: someone hands them a team, wishes them luck, and walks away. No handbook. No real preparation. Just the sudden weight of being responsible for other people and the quiet, urgent question - am I doing this right?From Follower to Leader is the book for that moment.Drawing on twenty-five years of experience working with leaders across sectors, cultures, and high-stakes environments, this book offers something the leadership section rarely delivers: a warm, honest, practical account of what leadership actually involves, written for people at the beginning of the journey rather than those who have already arrived.You will follow five characters navigating the real challenges of early leadership. Owen, a logistics coordinator seventeen months into his first team lead role, learning that leadership is less about having answers and more about creating the conditions for other people to find them. Maya, whose 360-degree feedback process revealed a gap between who she wanted to be as a leader and what her team actually experienced - and who closed that gap with patience and honesty. Derek, a construction supervisor who went through the hardest professional failure of his career and emerged from it with something more valuable than a clean record: genuine credibility. Nadia, who built her authority not through confidence or credentials but through the unglamorous daily work of doing the job well. And Marcus, a school principal who inherited a team whose trust had been broken, and who rebuilt it one kept promise at a time.The book moves through everything that early leadership actually requires: understanding yourself clearly enough to lead others well, building trust and credibility from scratch, communicating in ways that actually land, delegating without losing control, navigating the difficult conversations that every leader eventually has to have, leading through change and uncertainty, recovering from failure, and developing the people around you into the leaders they have the potential to become.No jargon. No impossible role models. No five-step formulas that dissolve on contact with real people and real situations. Just a grounded, human guide to one of the most important and most underserved transitions in professional life.If you have read From Idea to Done: A Beginner's Complete Guide to Project Management, you are already familiar with this approach. If this is your first book in the series, it stands completely on its own.Book Two in the From Idea to Done series. Book Three - Leadership in Project Management - coming soon. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…
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- Title
- From Follower to Leader (Paperback)
- Author
- Ellis Grant
- Publisher
- Independently Published
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798195065430
- Series
- Book 1 of 2: Project Management and Leadership
Most people become leaders the same way: someone hands them a team, wishes them luck, and walks away. No handbook. No real preparation. Just the sudden weight of being responsible for other people and the quiet, urgent question — am I doing this right?
From Follower to Leader is the book for that moment.
Drawing on twenty-five years of experience working with leaders across sectors, cultures, and high-stakes environments, this book offers something the leadership section rarely delivers: a warm, honest, practical account of what leadership actually involves, written for people at the beginning of the journey rather than those who have already arrived.
You will follow five characters navigating the real challenges of early leadership. Owen, a logistics coordinator seventeen months into his first team lead role, learning that leadership is less about having answers and more about creating the conditions for other people to find them. Maya, whose 360-degree feedback process revealed a gap between who she wanted to be as a leader and what her team actually experienced — and who closed that gap with patience and honesty. Derek, a construction supervisor who went through the hardest professional failure of his career and emerged from it with something more valuable than a clean record: genuine credibility. Nadia, who built her authority not through confidence or credentials but through the unglamorous daily work of doing the job well. And Marcus, a school principal who inherited a team whose trust had been broken, and who rebuilt it one kept promise at a time.
The book moves through everything that early leadership actually requires: understanding yourself clearly enough to lead others well, building trust and credibility from scratch, communicating in ways that actually land, delegating without losing control, navigating the difficult conversations that every leader eventually has to have, leading through change and uncertainty, recovering from failure, and developing the people around you into the leaders they have the potential to become.
No jargon. No impossible role models. No five-step formulas that dissolve on contact with real people and real situations. Just a grounded, human guide to one of the most important and most underserved transitions in professional life.
If you have read From Idea to Done: A Beginner's Complete Guide to Project Management, you are already familiar with this approach. If this is your first book in the series, it stands completely on its own.
Book Two in the From Idea to Done series. Book Three — Leadership in Project Management — coming soon.
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